Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Selected Works 1911-1945 - Softcover

Stein, Gertrude

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0720612012 ISBN 13: 9780720612011

Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers, 2004

Synopsis

Gertrude Stein’s radical innovations and continual experiments with language were years ahead of her time. More than any other writer, Stein reflects the last century’s revolt from the fine arts. Gertrude Stein was one of the most colorful personalities of the literary world during the interwar years. This volume of her writings attempts to dispel some of the misunderstanding that surrounds her work, presenting many of her lectures for the first time. Look at Me Now includes portraits of people (Matisse, Lipschitz, Picasso, Henry James, and others), portraits of objects, her poetry, her novel Ida, and her last work, Brewsie and Willie. Her lectures reveal a precise and original scheme behind her writing, drawing on concepts from William James’s theories of the aesthetic to Bergson’s notion of time. This accessible anthology presents the best of her startling achievements.

About this title

About the Author:

Gertrude Stein was a renowned patron of the arts, acquiring pictures by Cézanne, Renoir, Gauguin, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec, and contemporary artists such as Picasso and Braque. She was the author of The Making of Americans, QED, and Three Lives.

Review:

"Twentieth-century literature IS Gertrude Stein. The four big American writers are Poe, Whitman, James, and myself. The line of descent is clear."

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0720612012
• ISBN 13: 9780720612011
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300