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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Well as I say when I first heard he was writing I had a funny feeling one does you
know . Things belong to you and writing be ! longed to me , there is no doubt
about it writing belonged to me . I know writing belongs to me , I am quite certain
...
Well as I say when I first heard he was writing I had a funny feeling one does you
know . Things belong to you and writing be ! longed to me , there is no doubt
about it writing belonged to me . I know writing belongs to me , I am quite certain
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It is funny this knowing being a genius , everything is funny . And identity is funny
being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you
remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself . That is really
the ...
It is funny this knowing being a genius , everything is funny . And identity is funny
being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you
remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself . That is really
the ...
Pagina 136
He was very funny he did not like my brother Leo so he would take Leo ' s violin
out into the barn and get it to smell of horses , he used to be worried because he
thought that from time to time he paid a five dollar piece for a five cent piece , that
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He was very funny he did not like my brother Leo so he would take Leo ' s violin
out into the barn and get it to smell of horses , he used to be worried because he
thought that from time to time he paid a five dollar piece for a five cent piece , that
...
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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 |
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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