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Listen to Mebrings Stein’s sparklingly witty, illuminating lectures together in one volume for the first time, selected by her acclaimed biographer, Francesca Wade.
In 1933, Gertrude Stein published her groundbreaking memoirThe Autobiographyof Alice B. Toklas, which gained her instant celebrity. The following year shewas invited to return to the United States for the first time since she left for France in 1903, to give a series of lectures on art and literature. Newly famous, Stein delivered her lectures,which double as a manifesto for her own, notoriously difficult work,topacked audiences at universities, galleries, members’ clubs and public spaces up and down the country. The lectures are vital and provocative works which articulate the legendary writers thoughts on the effect of modernism on literary form, the relationship between narrative and history, and between a writer, their work and its audience. In her trademark style she meditates on the creative possibilities of repetition, as well as her ambivalence toward her own literary fame and the destabilizing effect that notoriety had on her daily life.Listen to Mebrings Stein’s sparklingly witty, illuminating lectures together in one volume for the first time, selected and introduced by her acclaimed biographer, Francesca Wade.
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