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Para más de una generación, la casa de Gertrude Stein, en el 27 de rue de Fleurus, fue el centro de reunión de un grupo de artistas y escritores, entre los que destacó Pablo Picasso. En esta íntima y reveladora memoria, que resulta un texto indispensable para comprender el arte del siglo XX, Stein nos cuenta la vida del gran pintor; todo ello acompañado de mas de 60 ilustraciones representativas de la mejor pintura de Pablo Picasso.Picasso fue el unico pintor que vio el siglo XX con sus ojos y en su realidad, por lo que, consecuentemente, su lucha resulto terrible [...] porque no contaba con nada que le ayudara, ni el pasado ni el presente. Entretejiendo comentarios esteticos, biograficos y artisticos, Stein ofrece al lector un retrato unico del Picasso fundador del cubismo, del amigo de Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Braque o Derain entre otros, y del genio que condujo a una nueva vision del siglo XX.Este libro nos mostrara la importancia e influencia de España en la obra de Picasso; la lucha interior de un hombre por permanecer fiel a su propia vision del arte; los diversos periodos artisticos por los que paso...Un texto clasico y fundamental que se reedita en castellano despues de mas de medio siglo.

Guerras que he visto (1945), último libro de Gertrude Stein, escrito durante la ocupación alemana en el pueblecito francés de Culoz, es, como tantas otras obras de la autora, un inclasificable compendio de autobiografia y reflexion historica, siempre sujeto a un espiritu radical de revolucion de los generos. La experiencia de la Francia invadida por el ejercito nazi se entrelaza con el recuerdo de otras guerras vividas o conocidas, y la idea de la evolucion de la historia con la Segunda Guerra Mundial como limite del siglo XIX y verdadero principio del XX se explica e ilustra a traves de miles de detalles de la vida cotidiana de la ocupacion. Historias de comida y de contrabando, de hijos escondidos o deportados, de maquis y colaboracionistas, de prisioneros y funcionarios, de largas tardes de espera frente a la radio, se mezclan con referencias a Shakespeare, a Wilde o a las profecias de santa Odile. Con una distribucion siempre inesperada de lo trascendente y lo trivial, de lo historico y lo anecdotico, estas memorias son sin duda uno de los diarios de guerra mas originales que se hayan escrito.

Bajo el pretexto de escribir las memorias de Alice B. Toklas, su íntima amiga, secretaria y confidente, Gertrude Stein, no solo nos cuenta la historia de su propia vida sino que nos ofrece la deliciosa cronica de treinta años de vida parisiense.Hoy en dia la gente tiene tanta informacion a mano que corre el riesgo de perder el sentido comun.Gertrude SteinSe sabe que Gertrude Stein era una mujer atrevida en sus opiniones y con un sentido del humor peculiar; pues bien, el titulo mismo de este libro demuestra su talento y la voluntad de ir mas alla de lo establecido en cuanto a generos literarios: aparentemente estamos leyendo un texto autobiografico y quien lo firma es Alice B. Toklas, la secretaria y compañera sentimental de la gran autora, pero quien esta detras de estas paginas es la misma Gertrude Stein.Asi, al hilo de la voz de Alice, entramos en la casa que las dos mujeres compartieron en Paris entre 1903 y 1933, y por donde desfilaban las figuras que definieron lo que seria la cultura de principios del siglo XX. Comiendo con Picasso, cenando con Hemingway o hablando de sombreros con Marcelle Braque, se fue hilando una tradicion intelectual que hoy ya es clasica y a Gertrude Stein debemos el gran favor de haber abierto las puertas de este salon donde las anecdotas, divertidas o tragicas, acabaron convirtiendose en Historia con mayusculas.

«Guerras que he visto» (1945) último libro de Gertrude Stein, escrito durante la ocupación alemana en el pueblecito francés de Culoz, es, como tantas obras de la autora, un inclasificable compendio d

First published in 1909, the great American version of Flaubert''s "Trois Contes" recounts the lives of three plain and humble women, two working as household servants and the third, a Black woman, involved in an unhappy love affair. But to express these revelatory fictions in this manner is to miss everything, for Stein''s language of the first decade of the 20th century is still as fresh today as if her characters had just created the American tongue. Poet Lyn Hejinian adds new perceptions about this work in her stunning introduction. Also available by Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein (Allegheny, Pennsylvania, 3 de febrero de 1874 – París, 27 de julio de 1946) fue una de las figuras culturales más destacadas de la primera mitad del siglo XX.Su labor como escritora s

Lindheims was Annas favorite store, for there they had bargain days, when flour and sugar were sold for a quarter of a cent less for a pound, and there the heads of the departments were all her friends and always managed to give her the bargain prices, even on other days.Anna led an arduous and troubled life.Anna managed the whole little house for Miss Mathilda. It was a funny little house, one of a whole row of all the same kind that made a close pile like a row of dominoes that a child knocks over, for they were built along a street which at this point came down a steep hill. They were funny little houses, two stories high, with red brick fronts and long white steps.This one little house was always very full with Miss Mathilda, an under servant, stray dogs and cats and Annas voice that scolded, managed, grumbled all day long.

Tender Buttons is a 1914 book by American writer Gertrude Stein consisting of three sections titled "Objects", "Food", and "Rooms". While the short book consists of multiple poems covering the everyday mundane, Steins experimental use of language renders the poems unorthodox and their subjects unfamiliar.Stein began composition of the book in 1912 with multiple short prose poems in an effort to "create a word relationship between the word and the things seen" using a "realist" perspective. She then published it in three sections as her second book in 1914.

You see that Anna led an arduous and troubled life Her face was worn, her cheeks were thin, her mouth drawn and firm, and her light blue eyes were very bright. Sometimes they were full of lightning and sometimes full of humour, but they were always sharp and clear.Under the grey, industrial skies of Bridgepoint (modelled on Baltimore), three women Anna, Melanctha and Lena live, work and love. Painting a powerful portrait of women trapped in drudgery, Steins Three Lives is a ground-breaking portrayal of abuse and non-heteronormative sexuality, and is a searing indictment of the struggles of the working class in turn-of-the-century America.An astonishing work that toys with style and conventions, Three Lives stands as a monument in Modernism and experimental literature, and comes from the pen of a writer whose intelligence and understanding bleeds from every page.

When they are very little just only a baby you can never tell which one is to be a lady.There are some when they feel it inside them that it has been with them that there was once so very little of them, that they were a baby, helpless and no conscious feeling in them, that they knew nothing then when they were kissed and dandled and fixed by others who knew them when they could know nothing inside them or around them, some get from all this that once surely happened to them to that which was then every bit that was then them, there are some when they feel it later inside them that they were such once and that was all that there was then of them, there are some who have from such a knowing an uncertain curious kind of feeling in them that their having been so little once and knowing nothing makes it all a broken world for them that they have inside them, kills for them the everlasting feeling; and they spend their life in many ways, and always they are trying to make for themselves a new everlasting feeling.