I Live Under a Black Sun

I Live Under a Black Sun is a novelized biography of Jonathan Swift by poet Edith Sitwell.

[1] Her debut novel, it is a modernist work, and was published in 1937, straddling her productive period of poetry in the 1920s and the 1940s.

[1][2] Though primarily biographical fiction, it includes thematic treatments on mourning and melancholia, and political allegory.

[2] At the time of its publication, the novel did not receive much critical acclaim.

[3] However, contemporary writers, including Evelyn Waugh and Edwin Muir found the novel successful.