Everybody's AutobiographyExact Change, 1993 - 328 pagina's Everybody's Autobiography is Stein at her most accessible and her most serious 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 in the wake of having authored a bestseller, Everybody's Autobiography is as funny and engaging as The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but it is also a meditation on the meaning of success and identity in America. |
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Pagina 106
... Frenchmen have always needed something exotic to make a relief for them , and to the Frenchmen of the war generation it was the American . The French felt themselves such an old worn - out people and here was something so different from ...
... Frenchmen have always needed something exotic to make a relief for them , and to the Frenchmen of the war generation it was the American . The French felt themselves such an old worn - out people and here was something so different from ...
Pagina 107
... Frenchmen died too but not like that not so quickly nor so many and as we watched them we little Frenchmen got frightened we said that if men coming from that big country and looking so big and strong could die so quickly what chance ...
... Frenchmen died too but not like that not so quickly nor so many and as we watched them we little Frenchmen got frightened we said that if men coming from that big country and looking so big and strong could die so quickly what chance ...
Pagina 308
... Frenchmen do their military service and then they have to come again in five years or so and do a month or so and then again ten years after they have been they have to do twenty days and of course they have to be put somewhere and some ...
... Frenchmen do their military service and then they have to come again in five years or so and do a month or so and then again ten years after they have been they have to do twenty days and of course they have to be put somewhere and some ...
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