While avoiding most mentions of true intimacy, Toklas is presented as a close and keen observer of Stein and her influence in Paris. Written on behalf of Toklas (much as Defoe did for Robinson Crusoe, Stein suggests), the book is certainly as much about Stein as Toklas. Written in a mere six week, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Available in Writings 1903-1932 (see our review).ī+ : gossipy, but an interesting portrait of the times.Toklas - CanadaĪutobiographie von Alice B. Toklas - UKĪlso in: Writings 1903-1932 - UK (recommended) Toklas - USĪlso in: Writings 1903-1932 - US (recommended) General information | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. Toklas, you might like Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.The Autobiography of Alice B. If you enjoyed The Autobiography of Alice B. 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. Toklas made her an international celebrity. 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. Born in Pennsylvania, she lived most of her life in Paris with her partner, Alice B. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), a writer of experimental prose, is one of the original American Modernists.
Audacious, sardonic and characteristically self-confident, this is a definitive account by American in Paris. 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 19.
As Toklas put it – ‘The geniuses came and talked to Gertrude Stein and the wives sat with me’. Picasso was there with ‘his high whinnying Spanish giggle’, as were Cezanne and Matisse, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and ‘it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning’. Toklas includes an introduction by Thomas Fensch in Penguin Modern Classics.įor Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice B. 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.
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