The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Summary
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Here is Gertrude Stein's famous work -- one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written. At the center of the narrative there is always the titanic figure of Gertrude Stein, the self-proclaimed "first-class genius" who some dismissed as the "Mother Goose of Montparnasse," presiding over her celebrated residence-salon-art gallery at 27, rue de Fleurus.
"... The record of nearly thirty years of life in a fantastically changing Paris and elsewhere -- a life passed in the most stimulating and important society." LOUIS BROMFIELD "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 |
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| 'I always wanted to be historical,' Gertrude Stein once quipped. In 1932, Stein began writing the 'autobiography' of her longtime friend and companion, Alice B. Toklas. The book, an immediate bestseller, guaranteed them both a place in history. An account of their life together in Paris before, during, and after World War I, it is full of the atmosphere of the changing life of the city and of idiosyncratic glimpses of such figures as Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Cocteau, Apollinaire, Pound, Eliot, Hemingway, and other luminaries and aspirants who were their close friends. But at the center of the narrative there is always the titanic figure of Gertrude Stein, the self-proclaimed 'first-class genius' who some dismissed as the 'Mother Goose of Montparnasse,' presiding over her celebrated residence-salon-art gallery at 27, rue de Fleurus. William Troy remarked about her: 'It is not flippant to say that if she had not come to exist . . . it would be necessary to invent Miss Gertrude Stein.' |
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