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1 day ago · Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life.
Jun 19, 2024 · Gertrude Stein is credited for the term Lost Generation, though Hemingway made it widely known. According to Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast (1964), she had heard it used by a garage owner in France, who dismissively referred to the younger generation as a “génération perdue.”
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Jun 26, 2024 · Hemingway credited Gertrude Stein with coining the term Lost Generation. Stein, referring to Hemingway and his writer friends, reportedly told him, “You are all a lost generation”—a remark Hemingway used as an epigraph to The Sun Also Rises. As bitter as it may be, it is fitting.
Jun 24, 2024 · Gertrude Stein’s writing style is a fascinating study in linguistic experimentation and modernist abstraction. Renowned for her innovative approach to narrative and prose, Stein often subverts traditional expectations of grammar and syntax to create a unique literary voice.
2 days ago · out of order. by Douglas Messerli . Gertrude Stein The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1933). Among the most devoted of Stein’s readers, particularly those who recognize the greatness of difficult texts such as The Making of Americans, How to Write, and Stanzas in Meditation, there is the notion that Stein’s more popular works, particularly The ...
Jun 26, 2024 · Ida: A Novel by Gertrude Stein; Logan Esdale (Editor) Call Number: PS3537.T323 I33 2012. ISBN: 9780300169768. "Gertrude Stein wanted Ida to be known in two ways: as a novel about a woman in the age of celebrity culture and as a text with its own story to tell.
4 days ago · Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania in eighteen seventy-four. She attended Radcliffe College and Johns Hopkins Medical School. In nineteen oh three, she moved to Paris where she eventually began writing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
