![]() ![]() Many of these people, including two key characters in Barnes’s novel, were gay or identified as what was then termed an invert (someone whose gender identity did not match their biological sex). This Paris only emerged at night, flocking to the bars to drink and to enjoy just being around other people who couldn’t be themselves during the day. But underneath the bright, glittering world that these writers lived in and wrote about was a different Paris, a dark Paris full of outcasts and social deviants. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and James Joyce. Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood is set in 1920s Paris-the same Paris that saw the rise of Ernest Hemingway, F. ![]()
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