Gertrude Stein: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Sie brachte Gertrude Stein im Alter von fast sechzig Jahren zwar endlich den ersehnten Erfolg als Autorin, trug ihr aber zugleich die Feindschaft vieler ihrer früheren Freunde ein: die Autobiographie von Alice B. Toklas. Das amüsanteste »Who is who« der Pariser Boheme.

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'Buttonholes the reader with its informality, its unhurried rhythms, deadpan humour and acerbic remarks' Frances Spalding, Sunday Times
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.

With an Introduction by Thomas Fensch