Read Gertrude Stein, you can still be a pioneer. If you just want to be the first person on your block to actually If you enjoy and welcomeĪ large landscape of imagination and invention, Stein opens all theseĭoors.

Of the same person or object in her writing. Stein took Picasso's Cubism (a figure seenįrom all angles at once) as a writing approach. If you have been wondering where theįractured point of view now seen in contemporary stories and film comesįrom, try reading Stein. The question is not why one should read Stein but what will be missed Long, it's best if you check out her titles in a proper bibliography Because her list of published work is overwhelmingly Story ( The World is Round) to her murder mystery ( Blood on She wrote varying kinds of fiction from children's She called Bottom Nature) in such work as The Making of AmericansĪnd Three Lives. Her fiction included portraits of people and their essence (what Gertrude Stein wrote poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, libretti, and Gertrude Stein was born February 3, 1874, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania Such as: 'rose is a rose is a rose' and 'there is no there there.' Home at 27 Rue de Fleurus in Paris and who she helped promote and quotations In Three Acts, her opera collaboration with Virgil Thomson theĬircle of friends (Picasso, Matisse, Hemingway, etc) who visited her She is probably knownīest for The Autobiography of Alice B. Gertrude Stein was a prolific American writer.

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