Stein, Gertrude

A twentieth-century American author who lived most of her life in France . She wrote her life story as The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Toklas was her companion), and she is said to have introduced the phrase “ lost generation ” to describe the Americans who wandered about Europe after World War I . Her works also include poems and the story collection Three Lives ; the most famous line from her poetry is “ Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose .”

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[Director] Naomi Foner is the one that told me that Gertrude Stein quote.

This Regular version sometimes sounds like the near sequiturs of Gertrude Stein or her clever admirer Donald Barthelme.

Malcolm is fluent in the ruses of modernist fiction (consider her profiles of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Two Lives).

I have switched sides on the Small Faces and Scorsese and Max Ernst and Gertrude Stein.

As one Democratic policy consultant puts it, “They are as ancient as Gertrude Stein in Paris or the Algonquin in New York.”

For me the work of Gertrude Stein consists in a rebuilding, an entire new recasting of life, in the city of words.

And what I think is that these books of Gertrude Stein's do in a very real sense recreate life in words.

Gertrude Stein's writing technique is probably best exemplified by her own writing.

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