Everybody's AutobiographyCooper Square Publishers, 1971 - 318 pagina's Everybodys 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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... lecture , it was a pleasure , it was interesting , I did not know then that I was going to lecture and it was polite always to be there at every lecture . It is best not to talk about hearing anything . Sound can be a worry to any one ...
... lecture , it was a pleasure , it was interesting , I did not know then that I was going to lecture and it was polite always to be there at every lecture . It is best not to talk about hearing anything . Sound can be a worry to any one ...
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... lecture I had a cold and my throat was troubling me , he had said I might and we telephoned to him , hearing his voice was already soothing but having him come and feel my pulse was everything and he was there at the first lecture and ...
... lecture I had a cold and my throat was troubling me , he had said I might and we telephoned to him , hearing his voice was already soothing but having him come and feel my pulse was everything and he was there at the first lecture and ...
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... lecture , and this was the university extension of Columbia . We had had a pleasant correspondence and there were to be four lectures and he had described the audience as being a few hundred and after the private lecture this was to be ...
... lecture , and this was the university extension of Columbia . We had had a pleasant correspondence and there were to be four lectures and he had described the audience as being a few hundred and after the private lecture this was to be ...
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Introduction | 3 |
What happened after The Autobiography | 9 |
What was the effect upon | 39 |
Copyright | |
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