Newly famous in the wake of the publication of her
groundbreaking "Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas," Gertrude Stein
delivered her "Narration" lectures to packed audiences at the
University of Chicago in 1935. Stein had not been back to her home
country since departing for France in 1903, and her remarks reflect
on the changes in American culture after thirty years abroad.
In Stein's trademark experimental prose, "Narration "reveals the
legendary writer's thoughts about the energy and mobility of the
American people, the effect of modernism on literary form, the
nature of history and its recording, and the inventiveness of the
English language--in particular, its American variant. Stein also
discusses her ambivalence toward her own literary fame as well as
the destabilizing effect that notoriety had on her daily life.
Restored to print for a new generation of readers to discover,
these vital lectures will delight students and scholars of
modernism and twentieth-century literature.
""Narration "is a treasure waiting to be rediscovered and to be
pirated by jolly marauders of sparkling texts."--Catharine
Stimpson, NYU
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