The One Who Is Legion

<p>For years I have been haunted by the idea that I should orchestrate those inner voices which sometimes speak to us in unison and so compose a novel not so much with the people about us as with those within ourselves for have we not several selves and cannot a story arise from their conflicts and harmonies?</p><p><br></p><p>Thus wrote Natalie Clifford Barney in her author's note to The One Who Is Legion a novel which she published privately in London in 1930 in an edition of only 560 copies. The book which received scant notice at the time of its publication and has since been all but forgotten is at once an occult work of genius and an early example of androgynous literature. Here brought forth in a new edition that should secure its place as one of the great classics of modernism this highly experimental tour de force in which Barney reinterprets the stream of consciousness techniques James Joyce had used in Ulysses in her own highly original style is a strange story of possession and fourth-dimensional materialism-and is in fact a glorious labyrinth of visions and emotions.</p><p><br></p>