Everybody's AutobiographyCooper Square Publishers, 1971 - 318 pagina's Everybodys 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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... counting , counting is everybody's occupation . And that is because everybody is certain that there is the difference that is what makes men men and as everybody wants to be sure that men are men just now wants to have it as an ...
... counting , counting is everybody's occupation . And that is because everybody is certain that there is the difference that is what makes men men and as everybody wants to be sure that men are men just now wants to have it as an ...
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... counting was counting and large sums were just begin- ning . They really did begin first with England in the Napoleonic wars and later with us and the Civil war and now they are not ... counting and is counting money . The Keysers 144.
... counting was counting and large sums were just begin- ning . They really did begin first with England in the Napoleonic wars and later with us and the Civil war and now they are not ... counting and is counting money . The Keysers 144.
Pagina 146
... counting as other kinds of counting . Afterwards while I was still at college I did realize that my uncles and cousins they were richer than we were and they knew less about everything they did not realize that any- body needed to be ...
... counting as other kinds of counting . Afterwards while I was still at college I did realize that my uncles and cousins they were richer than we were and they knew less about everything they did not realize that any- body needed to be ...
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 3 |
What happened after The Autobiography | 9 |
What was the effect upon | 39 |
Copyright | |
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