The 1961 edition of Djuna Barnes' Nightwood is a 1930s modernist novel set in the Parisian underworld of the 1920s, focusing on the destructive love life of the androgynous Robin Vote. Robin abandons her husband, Felix, to be with Nora Flood, whom she also leaves for Jenny Petherbridge. The story is illuminated by the philosophical and bizarre monologues of Dr. Matthew O'Connor, a character who serves as a narrator and provides insight into the themes of obsessive love, identity, and the characters' search for belonging
