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ElizabEth blakE Obscene Hungers Eating and Enjoying Nightwood and Ulysses Then she began to bark also, crawling after him--barking in a fit of laughter, obscene and touching. Djuna Barnes, Nightwood It is from a horror of life that Miss Barnes' work springs, and her book, it is to be carefully noted, is no more for general and indiscriminate reading than is Mr. Joyce's Ulysses. It is sometimes obscene, though never pornographic. Graham Greene, "Fiction Chronicle" One of T.S. Eliot's primary concerns, in his capacity as Djuna Barnes's editor, was that Nightwood would be, as Ulysses was, called obscene, tried, and banned. This fear is reflected in both his introduction to the novel and his editorial changes, which include the suggestion--discarded before publication but attested in the manuscripts--that the word "obscene" be replaced with "unclean" in the novel's final pages (186). That this substitution did not make it into print suggests the inadequacy of Eliot's replacement, which fails to account for the allure of obscenity, reducing it to something that arouses repugnance, rather than desire. Yet obscenity, as Graham Greene makes clear in his review of Nightwood, arouses more than just bodily desire. By distinguishing obscenity from pornography, Greene
The Comparatist – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Nov 20, 2015
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