Gertrude Stein

Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de Gertrude Stein. Gertrude Stein a été la première des grands écrivains de l'Amérique contemporaine. Elle fut la première à s'apercevoir qu'il y avait une Amérique contemporaine, que cette Amérique était différente de l'Europe et différente de l'Amérique d'hier. Elle fut …

Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. Her portraits of Anna and Lena are examples of realistic depictions of …

Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates. A Cubist masterpiece made up of perfect, glittering fragments, Stein's painterly impressions of 'objects,' 'foods' and 'rooms' are redolent of sex, laughter and the joyous rush of everyday life.

"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 …

Matched only by Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, Paris France is a "fresh and sagacious" (The New Yorker) classic of prewar France and its unforgettable literary eminences. Celebrated for her innovative literary bravura, Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) settled into a bustling Paris at the turn of the twentieth century, never …

For more than a generation, Gertrude Stein's Paris home at 27 rue de Fleurus was the center of a glittering coterie of artists and writers, one of whom was Pablo Picasso. In this intimate and revealing memoir, Stein tells us much about the great man (and herself) and offers many insights into the life and art of the …

Everybody's Autobiography is a book by Gertrude Stein, published in 1937. It is a continuation of her own memoirs, picking up where The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, published in 1933, left off. Both were written in a less experimental, more approachable style than most of her other work. In chapter four of this …