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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began to talk and pretty soon we were all talking about epic poetry and what it
was it was exciting we found out a good deal some of it I used in one of the four
lectures I wrote for the course I came back to give them but it was all that after all
in ...
began to talk and pretty soon we were all talking about epic poetry and what it
was it was exciting we found out a good deal some of it I used in one of the four
lectures I wrote for the course I came back to give them but it was all that after all
in ...
Pagina 283
We talked a little about the Four Saints and what my idea had been, I said that
what was most exciting was when nothing was happening, I said that saints
should naturally do nothing if you were a saint that was enough and a saint
existing was ...
We talked a little about the Four Saints and what my idea had been, I said that
what was most exciting was when nothing was happening, I said that saints
should naturally do nothing if you were a saint that was enough and a saint
existing was ...
Pagina 284
... you have to have a small one, yes all right the biggest publicity comes from the
realest poetry and the realest poetry has a small audience not a big one, but it is
really exciting and therefore it has the biggest publicity, all right that is it.
... you have to have a small one, yes all right the biggest publicity comes from the
realest poetry and the realest poetry has a small audience not a big one, but it is
really exciting and therefore it has the biggest publicity, all right that is it.
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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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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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