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Tender Buttons
Mentor and guide to the Lost Generation of expatriate American writers, including Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) is perhaps better known for her Parisian salon than her literary works. Yet her innovative approach to writing and her originality of thought make the impact of her books on contemporary literature enormous.
Tender Buttons, published in 1914, is vintage Stein. She pushes abstraction to its farthest limits by experimenting with words purely as words in a style more akin to painting than literature. Interested in their melody and color, Stein favors verbs and prepositions in unusual combinations and attempts to avoid using nouns. According to Sherwood Anderson, Tender Buttons "gives words an oddly new intimate flavor and at the same time makes familiar words seem almost like strangers … For me the work of Gertrude Stein consists in a rebuilding, an entire new recasting of life, in the city of words."
Often compared with music and Cubist imagery, the exhilarating prose and thought-provoking experimental techniques of Tender Buttons offer readers a rewarding sojourn through one of Stein's most influential works.
Tender Buttons, published in 1914, is vintage Stein. She pushes abstraction to its farthest limits by experimenting with words purely as words in a style more akin to painting than literature. Interested in their melody and color, Stein favors verbs and prepositions in unusual combinations and attempts to avoid using nouns. According to Sherwood Anderson, Tender Buttons "gives words an oddly new intimate flavor and at the same time makes familiar words seem almost like strangers … For me the work of Gertrude Stein consists in a rebuilding, an entire new recasting of life, in the city of words."
Often compared with music and Cubist imagery, the exhilarating prose and thought-provoking experimental techniques of Tender Buttons offer readers a rewarding sojourn through one of Stein's most influential works.
Reprint of a standard edition.
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Mentor and guide to the Lost Generation of expatriate American writers, including Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) is perhaps better known for her Parisian salon than her literary works. Yet her innovative approach to writing and her originality of thought make the impact of her books on contemporary literature enormous.
Tender Buttons, published in 1914, is vintage Stein. She pushes abstraction to its farthest limits by experimenting with words purely as words in a style more akin to painting than literature. Interested in their melody and color, Stein favors verbs and prepositions in unusual combinations and attempts to avoid using nouns. According to Sherwood Anderson, Tender Buttons "gives words an oddly new intimate flavor and at the same time makes familiar words seem almost like strangers … For me the work of Gertrude Stein consists in a rebuilding, an entire new recasting of life, in the city of words."
Often compared with music and Cubist imagery, the exhilarating prose and thought-provoking experimental techniques of Tender Buttons offer readers a rewarding sojourn through one of Stein's most influential works.
Tender Buttons, published in 1914, is vintage Stein. She pushes abstraction to its farthest limits by experimenting with words purely as words in a style more akin to painting than literature. Interested in their melody and color, Stein favors verbs and prepositions in unusual combinations and attempts to avoid using nouns. According to Sherwood Anderson, Tender Buttons "gives words an oddly new intimate flavor and at the same time makes familiar words seem almost like strangers … For me the work of Gertrude Stein consists in a rebuilding, an entire new recasting of life, in the city of words."
Often compared with music and Cubist imagery, the exhilarating prose and thought-provoking experimental techniques of Tender Buttons offer readers a rewarding sojourn through one of Stein's most influential works.
Reprint of a standard edition.
social orbit;woman loving;robin leaves;smoke shop;edition omits;magazine staff;anecdotal memoir;temperate climate;partner alice;leaves nora;french poodles;djuna barnes;ts eliot;dr matthew;alice toklas;adam gopnik;rue de;city lights;pablo picasso;avant garde;philosophical treatise;french people;jeanette winterson;eliot wrote;century paris;paris france;literary scene;moveable feast;middle name;literary genius;de force;tour de;english language;20th century;oconnor;hedvig;world war;liveright;petherbridge;apollinaire;nightwood;braque;dalkey;gris;cocteau;cubism;cubist;matisse;hobnobbed;transvestite;guido;sherwood;modernism;salon;modernist;automatic;geniuses;baron;felix;1996;fitzgerald;hemingway;jenny;tracking;midnight;books on pablo picassos;books on world wars;books on dalkey;books on jeanette winterson;books on literary genius;books on hedvigs;books on middle names;books on matisse;books on cocteau;books on nightwoods;books on de forces;books on social orbits;books on dr matthews;books on smoke shops;books on literary scenes;books on hemingway;books on french people;books on city lights;books on paris frances;books on guido;books on sherwood;books on avant gardes;books on oconnors;books on 20th centuries;books on liveright;books on magazine staffs;books on cubisms;books on djuna barnes;books on english languages;books on gris;books on braque;books on apollinaire;books on felix;books on moveable feasts;books on philosophical treatises;books on temperate climates
