Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein"This collection, a retrospective exhibit of the work of a woman who created a unique place for herself in the world of letters, contains a sample of practically every period and every manner in Gertrude Stein's career. It includes The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in its entirety; selected passages from The Making of Americans; "Melanctha"from Three Lives; portraits of the painters Cezanne, Matisse, and Picasso; Tender Buttons; the opera Four Saints in Three Acts; and poem, plays, lectures, articles, sketches, and a generous portion of her famous book on the Occupation of France, Wars I Have Seen. |
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Pagina xxii
... some of which are in the nature of experiment. One of the earliest of her
inventions was her use of repetition which she describes as “insistence.” “Once
started expressing this thing, expressing anything there can be no repetition
because ...
... some of which are in the nature of experiment. One of the earliest of her
inventions was her use of repetition which she describes as “insistence.” “Once
started expressing this thing, expressing anything there can be no repetition
because ...
Pagina 46
Once there was a Bryn Mawr woman there, wife of a well known portrait painter,
who was very tall and beautiful and having once fallen on her head had a
strange vacant expression. Her, he approved of, and used to call the Empress.
Once there was a Bryn Mawr woman there, wife of a well known portrait painter,
who was very tall and beautiful and having once fallen on her head had a
strange vacant expression. Her, he approved of, and used to call the Empress.
Pagina 52
She once told me that when she was young she had read so much, read from the
Elizabethans to the moderns, that she was terribly uneasy lest some day she
would be without anything to read. For years this fear haunted her but in one way
...
She once told me that when she was young she had read so much, read from the
Elizabethans to the moderns, that she was terribly uneasy lest some day she
would be without anything to read. For years this fear haunted her but in one way
...
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Gebruikersrecensie - AlexTheHunn - LibraryThingGerturde Stein is one of my favorite writers - as long as I avoid her "hard" pieces. I can only take those in very small doses. But the Autobiography of Alice Toklas and Everybody's Autobiography are ... Volledige review lezen
Inhoudsopgave
Tender Buttons | 459 |
Composition as Explanation | 514 |
Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia | 528 |
A LovE STORY | 543 |
SUSie ASADO | 549 |
LADIEs voices | 555 |
Four Saints in Three Acts | 582 |
Overige edities - Alles weergeven
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
ain't Americans asked began beginning Belley better Braque brother Carl Van Vechten certainly never Cézanne colored comes completely cubists Elliot Paul everything excited feeling Fernande France french Furr Germans Gertrude Stein girl Guillaume happened Harry Gibb hear Hemingway hurt inside interested Jane Harden Jeff Campbell Jem Richards Juan Gris killed kind knew lanctha later laughed listening look loving repeating maquis Marie Laurencin Matisse mean Melanc Melanctha Herbert Mildred Miss Charles Miss Dounor Miss Melanctha Miss Stein mother naturally nice once painting Paris Picasso portrait realising Redfern remember Rose Johnson rue de Fleurus Saint Chavez Saint Ignatius Saint Therese Sherwood Anderson soldiers sometimes stay story strong sure talking tell thing Toklas told trouble understand Virgil Thomson wanted whole wife woman women wonderful writing young
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein |
| Auteur | Gertrude Stein |
| Editie | herdruk |
| Uitgever | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012 |
| ISBN | 0307829855, 9780307829856 |
| Lengte | 736 pagina's |
| Citatie exporteren | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |