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Geography and Plays
From one of the modern era's most influential and boldly experimental writers — a generous collection of poems, stories and plays — all dating from 19101920. Wide range of the author's styles reveal Stein as philosopher, poet, portraitist, dramatist and short story writer, as the investigator of the nature of language, and much more.
Paperback, 420 pages
Published
July 2nd 1999
by Dover Publications
(first published 1922)
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I'm going to dip in and out of this for the next few weeks, I think. I've read about a dozen or so of the entries so far. Tender Buttons remains my favourite of Stein's, but 'Miss Furr and Miss Skeene' and 'Ada' come close. Her writing is certainly... yes. It is certainly.
She is a hen and being a hen is to hen. Hen next to hen in. In her hen hemmed nest of in. Her in. Next hen. Next.
She is a "bullet in the back of the rooster."
That hen.
She is pleasing sequences in order. Straw time, wire feet,
She is a "bullet in the back of the rooster."
That hen.
She is pleasing sequences in order. Straw time, wire feet,
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It's Stein so...best served by reading a little. Took awhile to read this but that's just because of the inevitable, purposeful repetition.
surely its not too sincere when the cartography starts to slouch.
"read this book"--not like I ever finished it.
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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 1874-1914, and the second with Alice B. Toklas, from 1907 until Stein's death in 1946. Stein shared her salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, first with Leo an...more
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“Bailing the center of a spot and not having an embankment is not the only way to flirt. So soon, so left without a spoon, so august and so strange and taller than every other, it is not astonishing that someone is older.”
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