Gather Look At Me Now And Here I Am: Writings And Lectures 1909-45 Assembled By Gertrude Stein File

for me: all the lectures, but especially 'Plays', 'The Gradual Making of The Making of Americans', 'Portraits amp Repetition', 'Poetry amp Grammar' the portraits 'Matisse', 'Picasso' and 'MiCareme' the play entitled 'A List' bits of the poem 'Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded' the 'Duet' part of 'Henry James', the first couple of parts of 'Ida' the excerpts from 'Brewsie amp Willie' made me want to read the whole thing.
Almost unreadable. Full of childish repetition and patronising asides, this is a worthless exercise in criticism, Not worth one star. Stein's lectures get more timely with each passing year, She's disarmingly funny and infinitely approachable, Often people perceive her more experimental work as difficult and nearly impenetrable, But these talks remind us that, while her surfaces might seem opaque, she is hiding nothing,

I took a point off only because the typeface in this book is so damn small.
See if you can locate the essays in a better format, You'll be enchanted, I assure you, This anthology presents the best and most accesible of her startling creative achievements, It includes 'What Is English Literature' and 'What Are MasterPieces and Why Are They So Few of Them, 'portraits' of Henry James, Picasso and Matisse two long stories, two short plays and her amazing poem 'Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded', amongst many other important pieces.
I don't always get it, So, if you bought this book then we can establish you are likely a Stein reader, Very few people would buy this volume as compared to the immensely popular Vintage publication edited by Carl Van Vechten.
This volume has it's upsides in it's collecting a good deal of Stein's lectures, One major point I would like to give the book and it's editors credit for is that "Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded" is paired here with the lecture that discusses it.
The two texts are vital in understanding each other, and I have not found the two printed side by side very often.

There is one instance, however, where I did see these printed side by side that I remember: the volume printed by Peter Owen in thes ors, Writings and Lectures:.
This volume, one will find, is the exact same as this present book, Thus, what you have here is a reprint with a new title, I do not own both volumes, so am not annoyed by this fact, however, I found that the book did a very poor job of indicating it was not a new collection.


Other problems I had with the book are the selections of works for the second half of the volume, "Fiction.
" The editors chose to include the widely available novel Ida in full in this reprint the original volume can be forgiven, for Ida was hard to come by while leaving the last novel Stein wrote, Brewsie and Willie, to be excerpted in a ridiculous fashion.
The editors describe their reasoning: "due to the length of Brewsie and Willie and it's overall evenness, it was decided thatchapters would be sufficient to show the method of the book.
They are the first three and the last two chapters, Also included for interest is the short epilogue in which a Gertrude Stein speaks directly to Americans.
" I would point out that Ida is a longer volume than Brewsie and Willie and the latter is a lengthy mediation on war and society that cannot be understood without the entirety of it's text.
Brewsie and Willie is only aboutpages in length, not that hard to extend a volume given that it is an academic printing, and the printers can just increase the price.


The book is cheaper than the Library of America volumes, but the Library of America set gives a much better sense of Stein.
The latter contains her lectures, some novels, portraits, and poems, I highly recommend the investment and to avoid this, Gertrude Stein was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature.
Her life was marked by two primary relationships, the first with her brother Leo Stein, from, and the second with sitelink Alice B.
Toklas, fromuntil Steins death in, Stein shared her salon atrue de Fleurus, Paris, first with Leo and then with Alice, Throughout her lifetime, Stein cultivated significant tertiary relationships with well known members of the avant garde artistic and literary world of her time.
Gertrude Stein was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature.
Her life was marked by two primary relationships, the first with her brother Leo Stein,

from, and the second with sitelink Alice B.
Toklas, fromuntil Stein's death in, Stein shared her salon atrue de Fleurus, Paris, first with Leo and then with Alice, Throughout her lifetime, Stein cultivated significant tertiary relationships with well known members of the avant garde artistic and literary world of her time.
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