The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Gertrude Stein
- First Published: 1933
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: 1903-1932
- 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
Places Discussed
*Paris. France’s capital city, in which Gertrude Stein spent much of her adult life, including years of it lived with her companion Alice B. Toklas. Her book describes Paris at a time when many of the most important artists and writers of the era congregated in the city. Indeed, in the early twentieth century, Paris was the center of the art world. There, Stein and Toklas were friends with, among others, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Juan Gris, Ernest Hemingway, Tristan Tzara, and Man Ray. They witnessed the rise of such art movements as cubism and Dadaism....
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