Everybody's AutobiographyCooper Square Publishers, 1971 - 318 pagina's Everybodys Autobiography is among the very best of Gertrudes writing--[it] speaks with the true and original voice of Gertrude Stein, without apparent art or bravado. --Janet Hobhouse~In 1937, Gertrude Stein wrote a sequel to The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but this darker and more complex work was long misunderstood and neglected. An account of her experiences as a result of writing a bestseller, Everybodys Autobiography is as funny and engaging as The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but it is also a searing meditation on the meaning of success and identity in America. Posing as the representative American, Stein transforms her story into history--responding to the tradition of Thoreau and Henry Adams, she writes: "I used to be fond of saying that America, which was supposed to be a land of success, was a land of failure. Most of the great men in America had a long life of early failure and a long life of later failure." Everybodys Autobiography is Stein at her most accessible and her most serious, and may yet prove to be among her most popular books. |
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... fly a flag just now when communism has com- menced and the national flag is particularly forbidden . As I say it was a queer summer and our Italian servants were gone and we had someone find us another man and wife to replace them . It ...
... fly a flag just now when communism has com- menced and the national flag is particularly forbidden . As I say it was a queer summer and our Italian servants were gone and we had someone find us another man and wife to replace them . It ...
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... fly , we telephoned back if Carl Van Vechten can go with us we will fly , all right they telephoned back we will pay for the three of you . All right we said and we had to do it . Everybody is afraid but some are more afraid than others ...
... fly , we telephoned back if Carl Van Vechten can go with us we will fly , all right they telephoned back we will pay for the three of you . All right we said and we had to do it . Everybody is afraid but some are more afraid than others ...
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... flying field , I never knew her very well and I did not know her then very well and she was the same as she had been and then we flew away in a plane . Did we or did we not fly over the Mississippi then going to Minneapolis and St. Paul ...
... flying field , I never knew her very well and I did not know her then very well and she was the same as she had been and then we flew away in a plane . Did we or did we not fly over the Mississippi then going to Minneapolis and St. Paul ...
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Introduction | 3 |
What happened after The Autobiography | 9 |
What was the effect upon | 39 |
Copyright | |
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