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Gertrude Stein nasce a Allegheny, in Pennsylvania nel 1874 e muore a Parigi nel 1946. Viaggia fin da piccola, vivendo, con la famiglia appartenente alla borghesia ebraica e cosmopolita, a Vienna e a Parigi per poi trasferirsi in California. Persi i genitori a diciotto anni, va a studiare presso gli zii a Baltimora. Frequenta la scuola di medicina senza portarla a termine. Nel 1903 insieme al fratello Leo e alla moglie si stabilisce a Parigi, dove inizia a collezionare i dipinti delle avanguardie e a raccogliere intorno a sé un cenacolo variopinto di artisti, scrittori e musicisti. Stringe una solida amicizia con Picasso e Matisse e comincia lei stessa a scrivere. Nel 1914 li raggiunge a Parigi il terzo fratello, Michael, anch’egli collezionista d’arte. Nel frattempo Gertrude Stein aveva iniziato a convivere con un’altra espatriata americana, Alice Toklas, che diventa sua fedele compagna sino alla morte. Stein, pur essendo una delle autrici meno lette sia in vita che dopo la morte, è una delle figure più influenti del Novecento: il suo salotto era ambito da chiunque frequentasse Parigi nel primo trentennio del secolo.
Geography and Plays . E-book. Formato Mobipocket ebook
EBOOK   9788826005737

Geography and Plays . E-book. Formato Mobipocket Gertrude Stein   -  Pubme, 2017  - 

One evening in the winter, some years ago, my brother came to my rooms in the city of Chicago bringing with him a book by Gertrude Stein. The book was called Tender Buttons and, just at that time, there was a good deal of fuss and fun being made over it in American newspapers. I had already read a book of Miss Stein's called Three Lives and had thought it contained some of the best writing ever done by an American. I was curious about this new book.My brother had been at some sort of a gathering of literary people on the evening before and someone had read aloud from Miss Stein's new book. The party had been a success. After a few lines the reader stopped and was greeted by loud shouts of laughter. It was generally agreed that the author had done a thing we Americans call “putting something across”—the meaning being that she had, by a strange freakish performance, managed to attract attention to herself, get herself discussed in the newspapers, become for a time a figure in our hurried, harried lives.My brother, as it turned out, had not been satisfied with the explanation of Miss Stein's work then current in America, and so he bought Tender Buttons and brought it to me, and we sat for a time reading the strange sentences. “It gives words an oddly new intimate flavor and at the same time makes familiar words seem almost like strangers, doesn't it,” he said. What my brother did, you see, was to set my mind going on the book, and then, leaving it on the table, he went away.

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