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 63
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it , the world is the world as a duchess
sees it , and anyway a duchess would be ... I suppose that is the reason why the
French country is so occupying , any peasant sees the earth as any other class ...
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it , the world is the world as a duchess
sees it , and anyway a duchess would be ... I suppose that is the reason why the
French country is so occupying , any peasant sees the earth as any other class ...
Pagina 118
I never did take on spirits either then or later they had nothing to do with the
problem of everlasting not for me , because anybody can know that the earth is
covered all over with people and if the air is too what is the difference to any one
there ...
I never did take on spirits either then or later they had nothing to do with the
problem of everlasting not for me , because anybody can know that the earth is
covered all over with people and if the air is too what is the difference to any one
there ...
Pagina 122
The more I think of everything the more I realize that what worries every one is
that the earth is round . That is what I liked in being in an airplane the earth does
not look round as it does on the ocean . It looks flat , but is it , everything seems to
...
The more I think of everything the more I realize that what worries every one is
that the earth is round . That is what I liked in being in an airplane the earth does
not look round as it does on the ocean . It looks flat , but is it , everything seems to
...
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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 |
What was the effect upon | 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 century 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
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Everybody's Autobiography G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Auteur | Gertrude Stein |
| Editie | geļllustreerd, herdruk |
| Uitgever | Cooper Square Publishers, 1971 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de University of Virginia |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 22 aug 2008 |
| Lengte | 318 pagina's |
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