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 68
... year by year. To be sure all day and every day you are waiting around to write
that half hour a day. I suppose that will be the way every one will pay their half
hour a day. Well that is another matter but still it has something to do with the
story ...
... year by year. To be sure all day and every day you are waiting around to write
that half hour a day. I suppose that will be the way every one will pay their half
hour a day. Well that is another matter but still it has something to do with the
story ...
Pagina 99
... between any one andjHiy_one because now there jsnone. That is what makes
detective stories such good reading, the man being dead he is not really in
connection with any one. If he is it is another kind of a story and not a detective
story.
... between any one andjHiy_one because now there jsnone. That is what makes
detective stories such good reading, the man being dead he is not really in
connection with any one. If he is it is another kind of a story and not a detective
story.
Pagina 138
When my mother died she had been ill a long time and had not been able to
move around and so when she died we had all already had the habit of doing
without her. I have told all about her in The Making of Americans but that is a
story and ...
When my mother died she had been ill a long time and had not been able to
move around and so when she died we had all already had the habit of doing
without her. I have told all about her in The Making of Americans but that is a
story and ...
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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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