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Sie brachte Gertrude Stein im Alter von fast sechzig Jahren zwar endlich den ersehnten Erfolg als Autorin, trug ihr aber zugleich die Feindschaft vieler ihrer früheren Freunde ein: die Autobiographie von Alice B. Toklas. Das amüsanteste »Who is who« der Pariser Boheme.
A fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas includes an introduction by Thomas Fensch in Penguin Modern Classics.
For Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and 'it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning'. Picasso was there with 'his high whinnying Spanish giggle', as were Cezanne and Matisse, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. As Toklas put it - 'The geniuses came and talked to Gertrude Stein and the wives sat with me'. A light-hearted entertainment, this is in fact Gertrude Stein's own autobiography and a roll-call of all the extraordinary painters and writers she met between 1903 and 1932. Audacious, sardonic and characteristically self-confident, this is a definitive account by American in Paris.
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), a writer of experimental prose, is one of the original American Modernists. Born in Pennsylvania, she lived most of her life in Paris with her partner, Alice B. Toklas. Experimental books like Three Lives (1909), Tender Buttons (1914), and The Making of Americans (1925) established her reputation as an avant-garde stylist, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas made her an international celebrity. As an experimental writer she has been an inspiration to countless novelists and poets in our century, from Ernest Hemingway and Edith Sitwell in her own time to Jack Kerouac and Robert Duncan in ours.
If you enjoyed The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, you might like Virginia Woolf's Orlando, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
'Buttonholes the reader with its informality, its unhurried rhythms, deadpan humour and acerbic remarks'
Frances Spalding, Sunday Times
Produktdetails
Erscheinungsdatum
26. April 2001
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
272
Reihe
Penguin Modern Classics
Autor/Autorin
Gertrude Stein
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
kartoniert
Gewicht
197 g
Größe (L/B/H)
200/126/17 mm
Sonstiges
B-format
ISBN
9780141185361
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"Largely to amuse herself, [ Gertrude Stein ] wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in 1932...using as a sounding board her companion Miss Toklas, who had been with her for twenty-five years. It has been said that the writing takes on very much Miss Toklas' conversational style, and while this is true the style is still a variant of Miss Stein's conversation style. ...She usually insisted that writing is an entirely different thing from talking, and it is part of the miracle of this little scheme of objectification that she could by way of imitating Miss Toklas put in writing something of her own beautiful conversation. So that, aside from making a real present of her past, she created a figure of herself, established an identity a twin, a Doppelganger.... The book is full of the most lucid and shapely anecdotes, told in a purer and more closely fitting prose... than even Gide or Hemingway have ever commanded ...."
-- Donald Sutherland
..." The record of nearly thirty years of life in a fantastically changing Paris and else where -- a life passed in the most stimulating and important society."
-- Louis Bromfield
..." One of the richest, wittiest, and most irreverent [biographies] ever written."
-- William Troy "From the Trade Paperback edition.
-- Donald Sutherland
..." The record of nearly thirty years of life in a fantastically changing Paris and else where -- a life passed in the most stimulating and important society."
-- Louis Bromfield
..." One of the richest, wittiest, and most irreverent [biographies] ever written."
-- William Troy "From the Trade Paperback edition.
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