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 148
Nothing about them worried us and that was all about them that surprised us .
Really nothing was very surprising or worrying just then . We had no parents and
each one of us was where each one was . That was what we were doing . We all
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Nothing about them worried us and that was all about them that surprised us .
Really nothing was very surprising or worrying just then . We had no parents and
each one of us was where each one was . That was what we were doing . We all
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Pagina 180
I was surprised , I knew that they never gave it to any writer I recommended but I
was surprised that they did not give it to a painter Picasso recommended , Alice
Toklas says that I am easily surprised but I was surprised . Well anyway Benno is
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I was surprised , I knew that they never gave it to any writer I recommended but I
was surprised that they did not give it to a painter Picasso recommended , Alice
Toklas says that I am easily surprised but I was surprised . Well anyway Benno is
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I was surprised . Oh yes , he said they had obtained that , according to their time
and training and their standing they were sent where there was a vacancy just
like any one . I was surprised . Those living there in America are not as often ...
I was surprised . Oh yes , he said they had obtained that , according to their time
and training and their standing they were sent where there was a vacancy just
like any one . I was surprised . Those living there in America are not as often ...
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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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