Nightwood is itself. It is its own created world, exotic and strange, and reading it is like drinking wine with a pearl dissolving in the glass. You have taken in more than you know, and it will go on doing its work. From now on, a part of you is pearl-lined.
What a marvellous thing to be able to say of any book, that in reading it “you have taken in more than you know, and it will go on doing its work.”
To read the rest of Winterson’s eloquent tribute to this classic novel, click here.
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Hi Kate, thanks for highlighting the article. Been wanting to read "Nightwood" for a while now, and Winterson has always been so convincing when she writes about the writers she loves.
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