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 91
ars they tell you that everything changes completely for you about every four
years . That is more or less so . The war lasted four years pieces of peace have a
way of lasting about four years . I said in the Autobiography that when one is
young ...
ars they tell you that everything changes completely for you about every four
years . That is more or less so . The war lasted four years pieces of peace have a
way of lasting about four years . I said in the Autobiography that when one is
young ...
Pagina 98
Then came the opera , Four Saints the opera was to be given . That was most
important but it was to be given in February . It is just as well to have been born in
February because February is a month when things are apt to happen .
Then came the opera , Four Saints the opera was to be given . That was most
important but it was to be given in February . It is just as well to have been born in
February because February is a month when things are apt to happen .
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So I wrote Four Saints In Three Acts and when it was played it was a success .
Another thing that is like Spain that is like America is that they make them alive
and they make them dead . Anything dead is dead and that too has to do with a ...
So I wrote Four Saints In Three Acts and when it was played it was a success .
Another thing that is like Spain that is like America is that they make them alive
and they make them dead . Anything dead is dead and that too has to do with a ...
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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
What happened after The Autobiography | 9 |
of the Autobiography | 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 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
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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 |
| ISBN | 0815403860, 9780815403869 |
| Lengte | 318 pagina's |
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