狄琼纳·巴尼斯（Djuna Barnes,1892-1982）是20世纪美国文学史上最奇特的女作家之一。她一生创作并不算多,但她对生活颓废和情感异化的刻意描写,的确给美国现代文坛带来些许生机。她的小说所揭示的令人困惑和怪诞具有超前意识,不愧为二三十年代现代派小说的实验典型。巴尼斯对意识流技巧的广泛使用和对笔下人物心理的细腻描写,可以与乔伊斯和福克纳相提并论。她是20世纪美国文坛传出的一种独特声音。 巴尼斯出生于波希米亚族人家庭,母亲是个小提琴爱好者,还经常写诗;父亲是个玩世不恭、玩弄女性的放荡鬼,既没有固定的职业,也没有做父亲的责任感。后来全家迁往长岛,不久父母分居。由于家庭原因,巴尼斯小时候一直未能上学。后来,她好不容易进了曼哈顿的一所艺术学校,学习绘画。 Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) is one of the most curious female writers in the history of American literature in the 20th century. Her creation of life is not much, but her deliberate depiction of life decadent and emotional dissimilation does bring some vitality to the modern American literary world. The puzzling and grotesque revealed by her novels are forward-looking and deserve to be typical experimental examples of modernist novels of the 1920s and 1930s. Barnes’s extensive use of the technique of stream-of-consciousness and his subtle portrayal of the psychology of his characters can be compared with Joyce’s and Faulkner’s. She is a unique voice that came out of the 20th century American literary world. Barnis was born in a Bohemian family, his mother was a violin lover, and often wrote poetry; his father was a cynical, playful woman who had neither a permanent job nor a father’s sense of responsibility. Later the family moved to Long Island, soon separated their parents. Due to family reasons, Barnes has been unable to go to school as a child. Later, she finally entered a Manhattan art school, learning painting.