Every Day is To-Day

Essential Writings

Gertrude Stein (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2023
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
9781782278795 (ISBN)

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In this collection, readers will rediscover Gertrude Stein as the bearer of a joyfully radical literary vision. A bold experimenter, her writing sparks with vitality, relishing in rhythm, repetition, sound and colour in its central vision: to prise apart language and association and find thrilling new ways to express the true essence of her subject with charming joie de vivre

Stein considered her shorter writings to be the truest expressions of her enrapturing style. Her fascination with people and personalities can be located in expressive portraits of close friends such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Juan Gris, whilst her decades-long relationship with Alice B. Toklas is immortalised with shimmering eroticism. There are also playful meditations on her unique writing process, conveying her serious delight in meddling with conventions of grammar and composition.

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was a writer, art-collector, and pioneer of modernism. Born in Pennsylvania, she studied psychology at Harvard and attended medical school, dropping out in her fourth year to move to Paris with her brother Leo. Here she played a crucial role in shaping the burgeoning European avant garde, hosting literary salons that counted Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Ernest Hemingway among the visitors. She was the author of countless poems, plays and shorter works, as well as books including Three Lives, The Making of Americans, Tender Buttons and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.06.2023
Reihe/Serie	Pushkin Collection
Einführung	Francesca Wade
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	120 x 165 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
ISBN-13	9781782278795 / 9781782278795
Zustand	Neuware