2.00 Great read - vintage paperback Elmsdale Road M4J 3M3 Donlands O'Connor East York Don Mills south exit off DVP A fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas includes an introduction by Thomas Fensch in Penguin Modern Classics.For Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice B. Toklas, 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 B. 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.
250
21 reviews0 chats · 1 favourite · 3 views
Other listings by will
Show allVintage Fire King Vitrock Red Flowerpot flour shaker kitchen
$16
40 beads stone pearl glass white beads jade marble jewellery
$10
Giant 8 inch Key Vintage Large Brass Bottle opener
$15
7 pair sunglasses & prescription eye glasses eyeglasses
$4
Dish Regina Delft hand painted blue floral white antique
$5
Painters palette art China Knick knack coaster
$3
Popular on Karrot
Show allThe Gifts of Imperfection book Brené Brown self improvement
$1
1942 WW2 Canadian Aid to Russia Festival Montreal programme
$12
Computer Science with Python Textbook
$30
Canadian Investment Marketplace Textbook
$40
Big Hero 6 Collector's Edition Blu-Ray + DVD + Digital HD
$7
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
$10
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Volume 12
$9
Bob Books Delux Reader Collection - JK/SK/GR1 (104+ books)
$80
Ed Sheeran - Divide Vinyl (Deluxe / 2 discs)
$30
Blueline Lab book (A91) hard cover(New)
$9
Canadian Securities Course Textbooks (Volume 1 and 2)
$120
1967 TOM STOPPARD ROSENCRANTZ GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD PROGRAM 1967
$22
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
$10
Larry's Party by Carol Shields
$10
Japanese 1 From Zero! Textbook
$26
Mathematics 10 Textbook
$65
The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
$10
Soul Eater: The Perfect Edition Volume 1
$24