Every Day is To-Day (eBook)

Essential Writings

Gertrude Stein (Autor)

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2023
224 Seiten
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
9781782278801 (ISBN)

Infos

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 vivreStein 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.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.4.2023
• Einführung: Francesca Wade
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: 20th Century Short Stories • Alice B Toklas relationship • American Modernist Writer • avant garde writing • Avant-garde writing • Cezanne • classic avant garde texts • Cubism • Deborah Levy • Ernest Hemingway • Experimental prose • feminist modernism • forgotten women writers • Francesca Wade • Gertrude Stein • Gertrude Stein writings • Henri Matisse • James Joyce • Juan Gris • language experiment • LGBTQ literary history • Lifting Belly • literary essays and sketches • literary portraits • Modernist Literature • More Grammar for a Sentence • Pablo Picasso • poetic prose collection • portrait writing • radical literary innovation • rhythmic experimental style • Square Haunting • Stein and Matisse • Stein and Picasso • Stream of Consciousness • Tender Buttons • The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas • three lives • Twentieth century literature • Virginia Woolf
• ISBN-13: 9781782278801 / 9781782278801