Everybody's AutobiographyEverybodys 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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Pagina 11
Alice B . Toklas is always forethoughtful which is what is pleasant for me so she
said she would make copies of all my writing not yet published and send it to Carl
Van Vechten for safe keeping . In spite of everything and everything means a fair
...
Alice B . Toklas is always forethoughtful which is what is pleasant for me so she
said she would make copies of all my writing not yet published and send it to Carl
Van Vechten for safe keeping . In spite of everything and everything means a fair
...
Pagina 67
Carl did not like to see him and I talked to him and Carl said how can you and I
said well I have had to be with so many who were drunk that I have the habit of
treating them as if they were sober . Oh that ' s it said Carl . Well I can ' t , and I
said ...
Carl did not like to see him and I talked to him and Carl said how can you and I
said well I have had to be with so many who were drunk that I have the habit of
treating them as if they were sober . Oh that ' s it said Carl . Well I can ' t , and I
said ...
Pagina 181
When Carl Van Vechten was with us in Bilignin before we left for America one
day Alice asked him Carl will there be any one over there who will say there goes
Gertrude Stein I have heard of their doing that and I would love it to happen .
When Carl Van Vechten was with us in Bilignin before we left for America one
day Alice asked him Carl will there be any one over there who will say there goes
Gertrude Stein I have heard of their doing that and I would love it to happen .
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EVERYBODY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Gebruikersrecensie - KirkusRead this fast, with no stops, no emphases, an unmodulated tone, and it is intelligible. Stop and think and you lose your way. But for the Stein fans, Gertrude Stein is as she is and they like her ... Volledige review lezen
Everybody's Autobiography
Gebruikersrecensie - Not Available - Book VerdictThis marks the pioneer modernist's second title to be recently reprinted ( Geography and Plays , Classic Returns, LJ 1/94), indicating perhaps a Stein renaissance. Stein knew everybody who was anybody ... Volledige review lezen
Inhoudsopgave
What happened after The Autobiography | 9 |
of the Autobiography | 39 |
Preparations for going to America | 84 |
Copyright | |
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Alice Toklas America anyway asked Autobiography began begin believe better Bilignin brother California called Carl certainly Chicago coming cook counting course dead deal decided drive earth eating England English everything exciting father feeling four France French funny gave give happen hear heard inside interesting kind knew known later lecture less listen living look Madame matter mean meet Mike mother move naturally never nice once painter painting Paris perhaps Picabia Picasso play pleasant pleased pleasure reason remember Saint seemed seen sometimes stay stop story street summer suppose surprised talk tell thing thought told took Trac trouble understand walking wanted wife woman worry writing written wrote York young
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