Every Day is To-Day: Essential Writings
About this ebook
'A Stein-shaped sentence is a very bespoke thing-you need an espresso martini to recover' Deborah Levy
In this collection, readers will rediscover Gertrude Stein as the bearer of a joyfully radical literary vision. A bold experimenter, her writing sparks with vitality, relishing in rhythm, repetition, sound and colour in its central vision: to prise apart language and association and find thrilling new ways to express the true essence of her subject with charming joie de vivre.
Stein considered her shorter writings to be the truest expressions of her enrapturing style. Her fascination with people and personalities can be located in expressive portraits of close friends such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Juan Gris, whilst her decades-long relationship with Alice B. Toklas is immortalised with shimmering eroticism. There are also playful meditations on her unique writing process, conveying her serious delight in meddling with conventions of grammar and composition.
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A new collection of Gertrude Stein's most enrapturing and essential short writings, selected by Francesca Wade 'A Stein-shaped sentence is a very bespoke thing-you need an espresso martini to recover' Deborah Levy Gertrude Stein considered her shorter writing to be the truest expression of her style. This collection presents a uniquely accessible introduction to an often-misunderstood writer. Word portraits of close friends including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Juan Gris reveal a new dimension to their subjects. Moments of shimmering eroticism sparkle, gesturing towards Stein's decades-long relationship with Alice B. Toklas. Ordinary objects are reimagined, becoming charged with new vitality. Stein's writing relishes in rhythm, repetition, sound and colour, as her joyful, radical literary vision dances across the page.
