Writings and Lectures 1909-1945 by Gertrude Stein [FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION] 1974 • Penguin

Gertrude Stein: Writings and Lectures 1909-1945 edited by Patricia Meyerowitz

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION [1974] PENGUIN BOOKS

2nd printing / 1974.

Vintage mass market paperback in excellent condition.  Some shelf wear to cover.  

This is a collection of Gertrude Stein’s most representative achievements. Miss Stein once said that even well-meaning people sometimes did her work more harm than good writing about it. With this in mind, the editor has made selections that let Gertrude Stein explain herself through her own work – beginning with almost all the major lectures she gave on writing. Here to our startling literary masterpiece is – as fresh, as intense as ever, and including “portraits” of Picasso and Matisse and the remarkable almost unknown poem “before the flowers a friendship faded friendship faded.“ much information about Gertrude Stein‘s life and work emerges from both the lectures and the writings. But this volumes most important accomplishment is that it dispel the idea of Gertrude Stein as a joke, a mere hostess for “lost generation“ expatriates, and the coiner of “a rose is a rose is a rose.“ Instead she appears in these pages as one of the bravest and most exciting writers of the 20th century