Three Lives - Couverture souple

Stein, Gertrude

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1640320156 ISBN 13 : 9781640320154

Editeur : Innovative Eggz LLC, 1909

Synopsis

Unabridged English value reproduction of Three Lives by Gertrude Stein. This wonderfully complex drama of hopes, dreams, and love, has characters that resonate with readers in different ways reading after reading.

The three stories are based on her being influenced by Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso.

The first book of Stein, and written in an unconventional way, this beautifully blended tragic drama is provided to the reader in a slim volume with the full text at an affordable price.

Contents

THE GOOD ANNA 3

MELANCTHA 32

THE GENTLE LENA 90

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. Her portraits of Anna and Lena are examples of realistic depictions of immigrant women who had no occupational choice but to become domestic workers. This collection of documents from the history of women's suffrage, medical history, modernist art, and literature enables readers to see how radical Stein's subject was. Three Lives consists of three character studies of women; "The Good Anna"--a kind but domineering German servingwoman; "Melanctha"--an uneducated but sensitive black girl; "The Gentle Lena"--a pathetically feebleminded young German maid. Stein published 26 books starting with this collection of three stories in 1909. This is her first book and she self published only 500 hard copies. She had to fight with the publisher to get it published her way. He wanted to make it more conventional. It was not written as a novel aimed at wide popular sales. She was seeking a smaller and a more critical audience. When it was written, she had left Baltimore and was living in Paris on money inherited from her father. She had the luxury of being able to do whatever she wanted. As a result, she bought paintings and wrote experimental fiction.

Biographie de l'auteur

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was an American-Jewish writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France. While living in Paris, Gertrude began writing for publication. Her earliest writings were mainly retellings of her college experiences. Her first critically acclaimed publication was Three Lives. Sherwood Anderson in his public introduction to Stein's 1922 publication of Geography and Plays wrote: “For me the work of Gertrude Stein consists in a rebuilding, an entirely new recasting of life, in the city of words. Here is one artist who has been able to accept ridicule, who has even forgone the privilege of writing the great American novel, uplifting our English speaking stage, and wearing the bays of the great poets to go live among the little housekeeping words, the swaggering bullying street-corner words, the honest working, money saving words and all the other forgotten and neglected citizens of the sacred and half forgotten city.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Innovative Eggz LLC
• Date d'édition: 1909
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1640320156
• ISBN 13: 9781640320154
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 106
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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