Paris France, Gertrude Stein
Paris France, Gertrude Stein
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Paris France

Author: Gertrude Stein

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Unabridged: 2 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/23/2020


Synopsis

Matched only by Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, Paris France is a "fresh and sagacious" (The New Yorker) classic of prewar France and its unforgettable literary eminences.

Celebrated for her innovative literary bravura, Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) settled into a bustling Paris at the turn of the twentieth century, never again to return to her native America. While in Paris, she not only surrounded herself with—and tirelessly championed the careers of—a remarkable group of young expatriate artists but also solidified herself as "one of the most controversial figures of American letters"—New York Times.

In Paris France with a new introduction from Adam Gopnik—Stein unites her childhood memories of Paris with her observations about everything from art and war to love and cooking. The result is an unforgettable glimpse into a bygone era, one on the brink of revolutionary change.

About Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, and Henri Matisse, would meet.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie on April 30, 2008

i've heard people struggle with book, then they give up and go do something to make themselves feel better. i struggle with things, then i give up and go read this book to make myself feel better. same thing with the teacup ride at storyland, when i was little. it makes you a bit disoriented, but as s......more

Goodreads review by Maria on August 14, 2013

Memoir, surprisingly optimistic on the eve of war. Some really delightful passages; good for Stein novice. Better in a way than A Moveable Feast by Hemingway, who stole her style. Nice, very nice, intro by Adam Gopnik.......more

Goodreads review by Justin on February 08, 2025

Stein writes like a child inspecting an object for the first time, turning it over in her hands, looking at it up close (with eyes squinting) then from afar (with eyes wide open) ad infinitum, shaking it against her ear, giving it a whiff, biting it for good measure, etc. By doing this she gives equ......more

Goodreads review by Derek on November 10, 2024

I was happy with this book. Stein’s over-the-top generalizations about French people seem like a perfect satire on travel writing, tourism, and American dilettantism. To misquote Dame Edna, for Americans, Paris is the world’s best kept secret.......more