Vagaries Malicieux by Djuna Barnes - eBook

Djuna Barnes did not think particularly highly of this piece, published in in 1922, calling most of it “horrible junk” in the margins of her copy. Perhaps she attempted to seem more worldly and aloof than she really was—after all, she seemed unimpressed by both Joyce—she admits here to daydreaming as he talks—and Paris, despite her admiration for the former and her settling in the latter. Still, it is an important document of a critical moment in Barnes’s life and career, one worthy of the enterprising reader.

Djuna Barnes was an American writer, journalist, and artist, one of the central figures of modernist literature. She is perhaps best remembered for her 1936 novel .