Gertrude Stein
Nadine Satiat
Do you know Gertrude Stein? Rose is a rose is a rose … Certainly, but still? In Paris, where she lived for almost half a century, in recent years we have been hearing more and more the name of Gertrude Stein. And yet, despite new translations, we seem to be content to always quote the same anecdotes, rarely to his advantage. However, this woman had a considerable influence in her time, and she is today in the United States a guardian figure of the avant-garde and feminism. What did she write to occupy such a place? What relationships does the ‘Cubist of Letters’ have with painting and with Picasso, who was his friend until his death? And what did the ‘Sibyl of Montparnasse’ tell the two successive generations of young Americans who, captivated, made a circle around it and venerated it? From the California of her childhood to the battlefields of Argonne, from Montparnasse to the Bugey mountains where, American, Jewish and homosexual, she survived the Occupation, this book retraces a free life, little concerned with political correctness, and the highly singular creative approach of a woman much more intelligent than her legend. (Google Translates)
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ISBN | 9782081219922 |
Genre | Autobiography/Biography |
Publication Date | 22-Sep-10 |
Publisher | Flammarion |
No. of Pages | 1288 |
Language | French |
Rating | NotRated |
Subject | Americans; Women Authors, American |
BookID | 4682 |