La misere de la condition humaine: Eliot on Nightwood
T.S. Eliot’s 1936 letter to Geoffrey Faber about Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood refers to possible “fines and damages” the publisher might face for publishing the book that ultimately became known, in the words of Jeanette Winterson, as “an important milestone on any map of gay literature — even though, like all the best books, its power makes a nonsense of any . . .