Born June 12, 1892 in Cornwall on Hudson, New York, Djuna Barnes died June 18, 1982 in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York, and is one of the most exciting writers of the Modernist era. It was with her stay in Paris during the 1920s in the circle of expatriate artists and American Bohemians that her writing career gained momentum, with important new, daring and difficult books that made her consider herself a spokesperson for lesbian writing. However, she herself is not situated in a claim to identity. Plus: as a critic of binarism she could in retrospect emerge as "the high priestess of Queer Hermetic High Modernity". Djuna Barnes 's writing goes beyond the separations ofexternal (nature, dead life) and internai (sex, gender, etc.) otherness in language, the overturning of the norm (sexuality, animality) and form, (metaphor, irony, depth, incomprehension) to seek a utopia that goes beyond gender and aspires to reunite with the living - even if this new alliance cannot, in the end, take place.