Nightwood

Certain texts work in homeopathic dilutions; that is, nano amounts effectsignificant change over long periods of time.Nightwood is a nano-text.It is, in any case, not quite two hundred pages long, and more people haveheard about it than have read it. Reading it is mainly the preserve of academicsand students. Others have a vague sense that it is a Modernist text, that T. S.Eliot adored it,that DylanThomascalledit“one of the three great prose booksever written by a woman,” (accept the compliment toDB,ignoretheinsultdirectedelsewhere),that the work is an important milestone on any map of gay literature—even though, like all the best books, its power makes nonsense of anycategorization, especially of gender or sexuality.