In store now! The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
In store now! The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein’s most accessible and down-to-earth read is both a self-congratulatory autobiography, an intimate portrayal of her relationship with her long-term partner, Alice B. Toklas, and a scathing examination of the birth of Modernist art. Their riotous experiences of the bohemia and madness of 1920’s Paris is brought vividly and hilariously to life, as are the complicated relationships between some of history’s most important artists, writers, and thinkers.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein
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. Toklas includes an introduction by Thomas Fensch in Penguin Modern Classics. For Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and 'it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning'. Picasso was there with 'his high whinnying Spanish giggle', as were Cezanne and Matisse, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. As Toklas put it - 'The geniuses came and talked to Gertrude Stein and the wives sat with me'.
A 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 1903 and 1932. Audacious, sardonic and characteristically self-confident, this is a definitive account by American in Paris. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), a writer of experimental prose, is one of the original American Modernists.
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