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 65
One evening just at supper we live as people do in the country we eat our dinner
at noon and in the evening an early and ... and so he had left the midi and here
he was in Belley, I said we are just eating supper come over immediately after.
One evening just at supper we live as people do in the country we eat our dinner
at noon and in the evening an early and ... and so he had left the midi and here
he was in Belley, I said we are just eating supper come over immediately after.
Pagina 136
was very large and heavy he was good-looking he had straight black hair and a
very good nose and forehead but not silly eyes, and he loved eating, he could eat
a whole rice pudding and he liked going into any kind of business.
was very large and heavy he was good-looking he had straight black hair and a
very good nose and forehead but not silly eyes, and he loved eating, he could eat
a whole rice pudding and he liked going into any kind of business.
Pagina 172
When the doughboys came to France they called it the eats and they did not like
it. Nobody ever does. Eating is a subject and a habit and the country in which one
lives needs the kind of eating everybody eats in it. All of our French friends who ...
When the doughboys came to France they called it the eats and they did not like
it. Nobody ever does. Eating is a subject and a habit and the country in which one
lives needs the kind of eating everybody eats in it. All of our French friends who ...
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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
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Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 3 |
What happened after The Autobiography | 9 |
What was the effect upon | 39 |
Copyright | |
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airplane Alice Toklas anyway asked Autobiography Autobiography of Alice Baltimore Basket began begin Belley Bennett Cerf Bernard Fay Bilignin brother California called Carl Van Vechten Chicago cook counting course Dali Dashiell Hammett dead deal East Oakland eating everything exciting father feeling Four Saints France Francis Rose French Frenchmen frightening funny genius Gertrude Stein go to America happen inside interesting Janet Scudder Kiddie knew later lecture listen living look Madame Caesar Marie Laurencin Mark Lutz Max White Mike mother naturally Negro never nice Nyen oh yes once painter painting Paris perhaps photographed Picabia Picasso play pleasant pleasure poetry quarreling remember seen Spaniard Spanish stay story summer suppose talk telephone tell thing Thornton Thornton Wilder thought told Trac trouble walking wanted wife woman worry writing written wrote York young
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Everybody's Autobiography |
| 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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