![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), a writer of experimental prose, is one of the original American Modernists.īorn in Pennsylvania, she lived most of her life in Paris with her partner, Alice B. Audacious, sardonic and characteristically self-confident, this is a definitive account by American in Paris. As Toklas put it - 'The geniuses came and talked to Gertrude Stein and the wives sat with me'.Ī 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. ![]() 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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