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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... Better give it up , says Janet . We were very quiet that is were living in the country and that is very occupying ... better not have come in one . Blood on the dining room floor and they had better not have come in one . We had a late ...
... Better give it up , says Janet . We were very quiet that is were living in the country and that is very occupying ... better not have come in one . Blood on the dining room floor and they had better not have come in one . We had a late ...
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... better do . Why I said I think you had better marry the Englishman , oh she said , there are some things a girl can't do . Then I said why dont you tell your mother something I will she said when she is on her death- bed , but she is ...
... better do . Why I said I think you had better marry the Englishman , oh she said , there are some things a girl can't do . Then I said why dont you tell your mother something I will she said when she is on her death- bed , but she is ...
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... better than predictions , predictions are a little more frightening . Well anyway there was the summer before we went to America and we were not at all certain we were going . There was every reason for not being certain . Well anyway I ...
... better than predictions , predictions are a little more frightening . Well anyway there was the summer before we went to America and we were not at all certain we were going . There was every reason for not being certain . Well anyway I ...
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 3 |
What happened after The Autobiography | 9 |
What was the effect upon | 39 |
Copyright | |
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