Djuna Barnes Nightwood (på svenska har den en betydligt mindre suggestiv titel: Nattens skogar) hyllas av Jeanette Winterson som skriver såhär:
Nightwood is itself. It is its own created world, exotic and strange, and reading it is like drinking wine with a pearl dissolving in the glass. You have taken in more than you know, and it will go on doing its work. From now on, a part of you is pearl-lined.