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This is timely. There's an article about Gertrude Stein today in the Huffington Post. Others thought she was an asshole (as I describe below) as well. Except I don't think they appreciated the genius part I recognized after reading this book...
Here's what I know about Gertrude Stein: She was an asshole.
I say that in a joking way. I actually learned more about her from this book than I learned about Alice B. Toklas (whoever she was) because this "autobiography" was written by Stein, supposedly fr ...more
Here's what I know about Gertrude Stein: She was an asshole.
I say that in a joking way. I actually learned more about her from this book than I learned about Alice B. Toklas (whoever she was) because this "autobiography" was written by Stein, supposedly fr ...more
While I loved the feeling and flow of the descriptions in the early chapters, and the flurry of great painters coming in and out of Gertrude Stein's "atelier" as I read along, the book has a level of self-absorption and self-importance that just doesn't work for me. I greatly prefer a lesser known work of Stein's, "Picasso," which covers the same era, more or less, but focuses on Picasso at its core rather than Stein herself as the main character. The feminist in me wants to champion Stein and t
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