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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... saints have been Spanish and Italian and that is natural enough , there must be really weather in which to wander in order to be a saint . A saint a real saint never does anything , a martyr does something but a really good saint does ...
... saints have been Spanish and Italian and that is natural enough , there must be really weather in which to wander in order to be a saint . A saint a real saint never does anything , a martyr does something but a really good saint does ...
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... Saints that is the two saints Saint Theresa and Saint Ignatius anything could be a saint . Anybody can like saints . I was pleased when somebody wrote to me and told me that they had never known what saints were before . I was surprised ...
... Saints that is the two saints Saint Theresa and Saint Ignatius anything could be a saint . Anybody can like saints . I was pleased when somebody wrote to me and told me that they had never known what saints were before . I was surprised ...
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... Saint Louis , in London now almost every one has given up living in those big houses but they said yes in Saint Louis yes they did still in Saint Louis live in those houses yes they did , some families did not to be sure families are ...
... Saint Louis , in London now almost every one has given up living in those big houses but they said yes in Saint Louis yes they did still in Saint Louis live in those houses yes they did , some families did not to be sure families are ...
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Introduction | 3 |
What happened after The Autobiography | 9 |
What was the effect upon | 39 |
Copyright | |
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