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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Summarized Edition). Enriched edition. Cubist life-writing from the Left Bank: salons, war work, and the Picasso–Matisse–Hemingway circle
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- Nombre de pages135
- FormatePub
- ISBN859-65--4787807-0
- EAN8596547878070
- Date de parution10/01/2026
- Protection num.Digital Watermarking
- Taille884 Ko
- Infos supplémentairesepub
- ÉditeurQUICKIE CLASSICS
Résumé
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Modern Classics Series) is Stein's most beguiling act of ventriloquism: a memoir narrated by Toklas yet unmistakably composed in Stein's lapidary, recursive prose. It charts the making of the Parisian avant-garde-Picasso, Matisse, Braque, and Hemingway-through salon scenes at 27 rue de Fleurus, wartime service, and the rhythms of expatriate life. Part portrait gallery, part self-fashioning, the book fuses gossip with aesthetic theory, transforming life-writing into a cubist experiment within the larger context of high modernism.
Gertrude Stein-Radcliffe-trained under William James, briefly a medical student at Johns Hopkins, and indefatigable patron of modern painting-found in Toklas's voice a means to reconcile experiment with accessibility. Living together from 1907, the pair curated revolutionary art and, during World War I, drove supplies for the American Fund for French Wounded. After the audacities of Three Lives, Tender Buttons, and The Making of Americans, Stein turned to this pseudo-memoir to stage her legend, secure income, and codify an ethics of attention to everyday genius.
Readers of modernism, queer history, and art will relish its crystalline insights and sly comedy. As an initiation into Stein's oeuvre and the Left Bank milieu, this remains indispensable, charming, and intellectually bracing. Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable-distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
Gertrude Stein-Radcliffe-trained under William James, briefly a medical student at Johns Hopkins, and indefatigable patron of modern painting-found in Toklas's voice a means to reconcile experiment with accessibility. Living together from 1907, the pair curated revolutionary art and, during World War I, drove supplies for the American Fund for French Wounded. After the audacities of Three Lives, Tender Buttons, and The Making of Americans, Stein turned to this pseudo-memoir to stage her legend, secure income, and codify an ethics of attention to everyday genius.
Readers of modernism, queer history, and art will relish its crystalline insights and sly comedy. As an initiation into Stein's oeuvre and the Left Bank milieu, this remains indispensable, charming, and intellectually bracing. Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable-distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
