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 51
It was a funny thing that summer so many things happened and they had nothing
to do with me or writing. I have so often wanted to make a story of them a
detective story of everything happening that summer and here I am trying to do it
again.
It was a funny thing that summer so many things happened and they had nothing
to do with me or writing. I have so often wanted to make a story of them a
detective story of everything happening that summer and here I am trying to do it
again.
Pagina 52
It is funny about how often I have tried to tell the story of that summer, I have tried
to tell it again and again. The Hotel Pernollet is a typical French hotel the
husband does the cooking and the wife manages everything and they never go
out.
It is funny about how often I have tried to tell the story of that summer, I have tried
to tell it again and again. The Hotel Pernollet is a typical French hotel the
husband does the cooking and the wife manages everything and they never go
out.
Pagina 156
It was pleasant beginning the summer in Bilignin. The other evening Francis
Picabia was here with his son Poncho almost twenty-three. Poncho complained
that his half and illegitimate brother Lorenzo was going off to be a sailor on a
sailing ...
It was pleasant beginning the summer in Bilignin. The other evening Francis
Picabia was here with his son Poncho almost twenty-three. Poncho complained
that his half and illegitimate brother Lorenzo was going off to be a sailor on a
sailing ...
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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
Introduction | 3 |
What happened after The Autobiography | 9 |
What was the effect upon | 39 |
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 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
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 |
| Lengte | 318 pagina's |
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