Tender Buttons - Softcover

Stein, Gertrude; Wilson, Hannah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1495252396 ISBN 13: 9781495252396

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Gertrude Stein's innovative modernist writing continues to astonish, amaze and fascinate one hundred years later. Arguably the most daring of all the American modernists, Stein was heavily influenced by European artistic trends, yet her writing remains quintessentially American and feminist in its attitudes. This is fascinating book for students of modernism in its most innovative form. Arguably Stein is the great innovator of American modernism – perpetually intriguing and always exciting in its experiments.

About this title

About the Author:

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Henri Matisse would meet.

From Library Journal:

Self-published in 1914, this is one of the volumes that solidified Stein's reputation. Dividing the book into three sectionsAObjects, Food, and RoomsAStein attempts to form images using repetition and disjointed words. As the average person will find that it makes no sense at all, Stein's exercise in automatic writing remains in the realm of the literati.
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About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1495252396
• ISBN 13: 9781495252396
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 54