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
Well anyway the young Frenchman was walking along with this other one that
was another day and I met them. Then on this day which was yesterday I met the
Egyptian. I did not recognize him because I had not known he was an Egyptian
but ...
Well anyway the young Frenchman was walking along with this other one that
was another day and I met them. Then on this day which was yesterday I met the
Egyptian. I did not recognize him because I had not known he was an Egyptian
but ...
Pagina 105
Perhaps America since the depression will never be so young again. I suppose it
has to happen it does to any dog that he can never be so young again. But then
after they get old they do get young again and so this can happen. It is almost ...
Perhaps America since the depression will never be so young again. I suppose it
has to happen it does to any dog that he can never be so young again. But then
after they get old they do get young again and so this can happen. It is almost ...
Pagina 268
He is one of the four young men whose writing just then was interesting, and all
four of them were not very young they were all nearer thirty than twenty. It does
change the age that is young, once in Paris it was twenty-six, then it was twenty-
two ...
He is one of the four young men whose writing just then was interesting, and all
four of them were not very young they were all nearer thirty than twenty. It does
change the age that is young, once in Paris it was twenty-six, then it was twenty-
two ...
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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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