The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9595459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Herbert Nelson |
| Year | 1934 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 392 |
| Publication date | 1934-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein, 1933 |
| Venue | American Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9831 • E-ISSN: 1527-2117 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2919770 |
| OpenAlex | W1983211310 |
| Language | EN |
A fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris' Left Bank, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice includes an introduction by Thomas Fensch in Penguin Modern Classics. For Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice 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. Born in Pennsylvania, she lived most of her life in Paris with her partner, Alice Toklas. Experimental books like Three Lives (1909), Tender Buttons (1914), and The Making of Americans (1925) established her reputation as an avant-garde stylist, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas made her an international celebrity. As an experimental writer she has been an inspiration to countless novelists and poets in our century, from Ernest Hemingway and Edith Sitwell in her own time to Jack Kerouac and Robert Duncan in ours. If you enjoyed The Autobiography of Alice Toklas, you might like Virginia Woolf's Orlando, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. Buttonholes the reader with its informality, its unhurried rhythms, deadpan humour and acerbic remarks. (Frances Spalding, Sunday Times)
Alice (programming language) · Art · Art history · Biography · Literature · American and British Literature Analysis · American Literature and Culture · History · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
Transatlantic Baggage
Constructing a Biopic Screenplay
The Narrative Creation of Self in the Fiction by African-American and African-Caribbean Women Writers
The Erotics of Race Suicide
Palma
Modernism, Exclusivity, and the Sophisticated Public of Harper's Bazaar (UK)
Cubist chameleons
Grammar. In a Breath’
Threading Jewish Identity
Frock Consciousness”
Gertrude Stein, Opium Queen
Lizzie Do You Mind”
Entre Nous
Glenway Wescott's Narratives of Queer Drift
In the Queer Archive
Topsy-Turvydom
The Performative Novel
A constant recurring and beginning
Saved by Gertrude Stein, Or The Life You Perform Can Become Your Own
Writing is hearing and saying
Autobiography, biography and Ford Madox Ford's women
I. Using the L-word
Performing mindblindness
Love Scenes and Garden Plots
A Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose
Somatic Communication
Poetry into painting
Performativity, Autobiographical Practice, Resistance
Immersion
A Complement of Collaborators
Really Melanctha
I Said Lifting Belly”
What You Would Like to Hear”
In re
Queer Sonorities
Where Is This Now, Now
The Rhetoric of Passion
Recovering Lost Lives
Gertrude Stein's Mediating Stanzas
Getting Modern
On the Lecture Circuit with Gertrude Stein's Portraits
The Taste of the Archive
Pursued by Demons
The Case of Gertrude Stein and the Genius of Collaboration
In the Jealous Way of Pictures”
Gertrude Stein
Excavating There
To Glorify
Psychoanalysis and The Problem of Truth
Gertrude Stein's Portraits of Matisse and Picasso
The Path to Gertrude Stein in Contemporary Post-Soviet Culture
African Art
The Moral of Glenway Wescott
The American Sentence”
William James and the art of human understanding
Vicarious Writing, Or
Collecting Lives
A Political Economy of Modernism
Women’s Autobiographies
Gertrude Stein, Alice Toklas, and Albert Barnes
"The "Beached Whale
Lost in Translation
Gestalt theory
A War Generation
Writing and translating in the multilingual city
Women Modernists and Fascism
Afterlives of Modernism
Loose Coordinations
Woman as Artist
Note di traduzione
The Embryography of Alice B. Toklas
Exporting Christian Transcendentalism, Importing Hawaiian Sugar
Gertrude Stein's Brain Work
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |