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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... brother . My brother and myself had always been together . One should al- ways be the youngest member of the family . It saves you a lot of bother everybody takes care of you . I was the youngest member of my family and there were five ...
... brother . My brother and myself had always been together . One should al- ways be the youngest member of the family . It saves you a lot of bother everybody takes care of you . I was the youngest member of my family and there were five ...
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... brother had gotten to be very hard of hearing . When we were young together I used to tease my brother . I was very fond of reading Clarissa Harlowe and I used to quote to him , what Clarissa's uncle wrote to her about her brother , re ...
... brother had gotten to be very hard of hearing . When we were young together I used to tease my brother . I was very fond of reading Clarissa Harlowe and I used to quote to him , what Clarissa's uncle wrote to her about her brother , re ...
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... brother Michael was our oldest brother we called him Mike or Mickey , and so there were three brothers and two sisters that made us five . It is funny how in a large family they all are alike or each one is extremely different , I ...
... brother Michael was our oldest brother we called him Mike or Mickey , and so there were three brothers and two sisters that made us five . It is funny how in a large family they all are alike or each one is extremely different , I ...
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 3 |
What happened after The Autobiography | 9 |
What was the effect upon | 39 |
Copyright | |
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