Ladies Almanack by Djuna Barnes
showing their Signs and their Tides; their Moons and their Changes; the Seasons, as it is with them; their Eclipses and Equinoxes; as well as a full record of diurnal and nocturnal distempers
A playful mock almanac and hagiography tracks a charismatic patron-saint of love and her circle of women in 1920s Paris, using archaic, Rabelaisian prose and astrological conceits to both satirize and celebrate their salons, romances, and debates over gender and desire, yielding a witty, labyrinthine portrait of a queer community navigating freedom, ritual, and social hypocrisy.
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- Published
- 1928
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 120-180
- Original Language
- English
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