The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gertrude Stein
- First Published: 1933
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Biography
- Subjects: Homosexuality or homosexuals, Authors or writers, Art or artists, Social life, Paris, 1920’s, Lesbianism or lesbians, World War I, Painting or painters, Parties
- Locales: Paris, France, England, Nimes, France
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is Stein's inventive memoir of how she and her Parisian friends must have looked to Alice B. Toklas. The book was an immediate success in the United States and has remained in print. More conventional than any of Stein's previous books, it describes a crucial period in cultural history with a wit, charm, and mock-simplicity that disguised the book's brilliant inventiveness.
The subject presented a challenge to Stein's desire to live and write in a “continuous present.” Like Picasso, Stein was willing to copy anyone but herself....
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