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 12
... and that being men is therefore a very difficult thing to be. But more of this as
we go on. The Egyptian is a young fellow I had only met him once before when
he was with a young Frenchman who had just written a nice little book about
Proust.
... and that being men is therefore a very difficult thing to be. But more of this as
we go on. The Egyptian is a young fellow I had only met him once before when
he was with a young Frenchman who had just written a nice little book about
Proust.
Pagina 32
Matisse had pieces translated to him so did Braque, Marie Laurencin had pieces
translated to her but not by me. Matisse I never saw again but Braque yes twice
and Marie Laurencin once. Henry McBride wrote to me that he had seen Matisse
...
Matisse had pieces translated to him so did Braque, Marie Laurencin had pieces
translated to her but not by me. Matisse I never saw again but Braque yes twice
and Marie Laurencin once. Henry McBride wrote to me that he had seen Matisse
...
Pagina 178
Are you always like this, I said, always he said and how long have you been
doing it, for three years once a month, he said. Dear me, I said. I still do not know
whether he really was nervous or not anyway I never was except the first time.
Are you always like this, I said, always he said and how long have you been
doing it, for three years once a month, he said. Dear me, I said. I still do not know
whether he really was nervous or not anyway I never was except the first time.
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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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