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Gertrude Stein Reads

	List Price: $12.00 Our Price: $9.60 Your Save: $ 2.40 ( 20% ) Availability: Not yet published Publisher: Harpercollins Written By: Gertrude Stein
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 811 EAN: 9780060008703 ISBN: 0060008709 Label: Harpercollins Manufacturer: Harpercollins Publication Date: 2010-07-30 Publisher: Harpercollins Studio: Harpercollins
Editorial Review: "Rose is a rose is a rose" Among the most influential writers of her time, Gertrude Stein created poetryand prose so radically experimental that her work stood out even in an eracharacterized by unconventional sentiments. Stein's avant-garde approachto writing ignored the traditional confinements of grammar and structureand focused instead on sound, rhythm and texture, and the results were asrevolutionary and mesmerizingly brilliant as the post-impressionist paintingsof her friends Picasso and Matisse. This sampling of Stein's work, selected and read by the author herself,represents a unique opportunity to experience first-hand all the power,resonance, and astounding creativity of one of the twentieth century's mostimportant and memorable artists. Born in Pennsylvania in 1874, Gertrude Stein attended Radcliffe Collegewhere she studied psychology under the great William James. After leavingAmerica, Stein finally settled in Paris where she began experimenting withwriting techniques and before long became an important literary figure inthe flourishing Parisian art world of the day. Gertrude Stein also helpedlaunch the careers of other artistic giants and influenced and entertainedthe likes of Hemingway, Pound and Fitzgerald in her famous Paris salon.Gertrude Stein died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1946. CONTAINS: The Making of Americans: Parts 1 & 2 A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso/Matisse Madame Recamier: An Opera
Reader Reviews for Gertrude Stein Reads: Customer Rating: Summary: Gertrude, briefly Comment: Briefly, Gertrude, briefly and succinctly, succinctly is as it was and it was as it was remembered. A golden voice, an only voice a voice is as separate as a letter not sent, a letter not sent, not written not not sent not not delivered. A voice to stop stars, stars as they shine, shine shine as is as it was remembered stars as wars not remembered not remembered too painfully, not rememebered as succinctly as briefly as this tape is. A winner in brief, brief as a winner a golden winnner with a voice to stop stars. Miss Stein the secret is still with you. Customer Rating: Summary: Of coarse it's worth it. Comment: Gertrude Stein's work is meant to be read. She accomplished the same ends with words as did the cubists with paint. Her work defies linear syntax and conventional gramerical boundaries. She takes an object and strips all traces of reality from that object and presents it so that only the idea of that object remains. And it is the idea that Stein considered the most important. Her writing is frustrating at first and this audio casset makes Stein more accessible. You get a feel for the flow of her poetry. The rhyme and timbre that is elusive on the page is brought to life. Although this selection is short and doesn't give a hint as to when or where or under what circumstances it was recorded it still provides the reader with the essence of Stein. Customer Rating: Summary: Essence of Stein Comment: While this tape is, as already observed, a brief selection of Stein's reading, it is essential to anyone who loves, or would like to learn to love, her work. The cadences and intonations of her readings reveal everything we need to know about her purposes and methods as a writer; even the most hermetic and arcane of her work becomes "readable" if her voice is present as one reads. This is not merely a precious historical document, but the perfect gateway to the treasures of Stein. Customer Rating: Summary: Terrible Comment: As the famous review of Anthony Adverse went, similarly goes my review of this tedious little tape: "A Huge Mountain of Trash". It, however, is only huge in its trashiness, not in size or content. Perhaps my review of this would be more accurate as: "A small pile of gibberish."

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