One comes to find the book a bit of a reckoning for the artists they admire as Stein allows us to look at the people behind revered art, including herself, purposefully and quite playfully shedding the veil of mystique around artists and creation. WHY YOU SHOULD READ ITĪ moment preserved in time, Stein’s genius representation of her life with her lover in the midst of a blossoming Parisian art scene is part gorgeously written memoir and part precious archive of literary and artistic history. Besides depicting their lifestyles, the book's humorous idea, expert execution and Stein's ability to write for a mass audience is demonstrated by his amusing observations of the writers and artists who were then residing in France. Toklas sits with the men's wives while Stein converses with brilliant men. The lives of Toklas and Stein in Paris are described in the book, including their interactions with intellectuals, literary giants, and painters including Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Henri Matisse, and Georges Braque at their homes. The work was first released in The Atlantic Monthly magazine in a condensed form. The work, which was published in 1933, purports to be Toklas's first-person account of Stein's life, written from Toklas's point of view and complete with Toklas's sensitivities, observations, and mannerisms. Toklas' voice, who had been her lifelong friend. Gertrude Stein's book, The Autobiography of Alice B.
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