Título: Gertrude Stein Writings 1902 To 1932
Autor: Catharine Stimpson
Sinopse: This Library of America volume, along with its companion, surveys a literary trajectory that from the beginning of the 20th century to the end of World War II marked Gertrude Stein as a fearless and uncompromising experimenter. She was also a master of anecdote and aphorism, many of whose phrases—from “rose is a rose is a rose” to “there is no there there” and “when this you see remember me”—have passed into the language. This first volume, containing works written between 1903 and 1932, takes Stein from her first, more traditional fictional works to the exuberant and astonishing experiments of the early Paris years. She was a devoted student of William James, with whom she studied psychology at Radcliffe in the 1890s, and took an early interest in memory and the function of repetition in human character. In her early works, she sought a new kind of realism exemplified here by Q.E.D. (written 1903, published posthumously), a novel about lesbian entanglements at college, and the modern classic Three Lives (1909), a set of novellas about the lives of three ordinary women, described in the simplest and most direct of prose. In her brilliant abstract “portraits” Stein uses an extraordinary array of verbal techniques to evoke those friends and collaborators—Matisse, Picasso, Apollinaire, Juan Gris, Satie, Mabel Dodge, Carl Van Vechten, Sherwood Anderson, Virgil Thomson—with whom she shared decades of revolutionary ferment in the arts. Her play Four Saints in Three Acts (1927), which became the basis for an opera by Virgil Thomson, is written for a freewheeling theater of the mind where everything becomes possible. In “Lifting Belly” and other works she joyously celebrates her lifelong relationship with Alice B. Toklas, one of the most famous domestic partnerships of that century. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), Stein’s oblique and playful memoir, became an immediate bestseller and sealed Stein’s international celebrity. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Gertrude Stein Writings 1902 To 1932”, de Catharine Stimpson, publicado pela editora LIBRARY OF AMERICA, em 1998 e com 960 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: LIBRARY OF AMERICA
Páginas: 960
Ano: 1998
Edição: First Edition
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9781883011406
ISBN13: 9781883011406
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Library of America oferecem uma experiência de leitura que privilegia narrativas densas e de grande fôlego, muitas vezes apresentadas em edições cuidadosas e definitivas. O catálogo privilegia obras que exploram momentos históricos cruciais dos Estados Unidos, como a Guerra Civil e a Grande Depressão, além de clássicos da literatura americana em suas múltiplas vertentes. Há um equilíbrio entre textos mais narrativos, como romances e sagas familiares, e volumes que adotam um tom documental, reunindo cartas, discursos e relatos em coleções amplas. A linguagem tende a ser elaborada, com atenção ao contexto social e político, e o ritmo varia entre o envolvimento emocional e a reflexão crítica.
