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Gertrude Stein (Allegheny, Pennsylvania, February 3, 1874 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), 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.

In 1933, Stein published a quasi-memoir of her Paris years, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, written in the voice of Alice B. Toklas, her life partner. The book became a literary bestseller and vaulted Stein from the relative obscurity of the cult-literature scene into the limelight of mainstream attention. Two quotes from her works have become widely known: "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose", and "there is no there there", with the latter often taken to be a reference to her childhood home of Oakland.

Her books include Q.E.D. (1903), about a lesbian romantic affair involving several of Stein's friends; Fernhurst, a fictional story about a love triangle; Three Lives (1905–06); The Making of Americans (1902–1911); and Tender Buttons (1914).

Her activities during World War II have been the subject of analysis and commentary. As a Jew living in Nazi-occupied France, Stein may have only been able to sustain her lifestyle as an art collector, and indeed to ensure her physical safety, through the protection of the powerful Vichy government official and Nazi collaborator Bernard Faÿ. After the war ended, Stein expressed admiration for another Nazi collaborator, Vichy leader Marshal Pétain.

     

Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1906, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

  

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Susie Asado

 

Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
Susie Asado.
Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
Susie Asado.
Susie Asado which is a told tray sure.
A lean on the shoe this means slips slips hers.
When the ancient light grey is clean it is yellow, it is a silver seller.
This is a please this is a please there are the saids to jelly.
These are the wets these say the sets to leave a crown to Incy.
Incy is short of incubus.
A pot. A pot is a beginning of a rare bit of trees. Trees tremble,
the old vats are in bobbles, bobbles which shade and shove and
render clean, render clean must.
Drink pups.
Drink pups drink pups lease a sash hold, see it shine and a bobolink
has pins. It shows a nail.
What is a nail. A nail is unison.

Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea. 

 

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein morreu há 77 anos...

Gertrude Stein (Pittsburgh, Estados Unidos, 3 de fevereiro de 1874 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 27 de julho de 1946) foi uma escritora e poetisa norte-americana. 

      

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Tinha um apreciável círculo de amigos, como Pablo Picasso, Matisse, Georges Braque, Derain, Juan Gris, Apollinaire, Francis Picabia, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway e James Joyce.

Mrs. Stein era realmente genial e escreveu "Autobiografia de Alice B. Toklas", livro fundamental da vanguarda dos anos 10, 20 e 30. Com estilo muito próprio, a narrativa conta como jovens artistas e escritores vindos das mais diversas partes do mundo se encontram em Paris e detonam novos caminhos para a arte. Picasso vinha da Catalunha, Joyce da Irlanda, ela própria vinha da América, Nijinski era russo, havia vários franceses, como Cocteau, Apollinaire, e Matisse. É bom lembrar que, apesar do nome, o livro foi escrito por Miss Stein, tendo como porta-voz Alice B. Toklas, sua companheira durante vinte e cinco anos.

     

Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1906

  

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The house was just twinkling in the moon light

 

The house was just twinkling in the moon light,   

And inside it twinkling with delight,

Is my baby bright.

Twinkling with delight in the house twinkling   

with the moonlight,

Bless my baby bless my baby bright,

Bless my baby twinkling with delight,

In the house twinkling in the moon light,

Her hubby dear loves to cheer when he thinks

and he always thinks when he knows and he always   

knows that his blessed baby wifey is all here and he

is all hers, and sticks to her like burrs, blessed baby

 

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein morreu há 76 anos

Gertrude Stein (Pittsburgh, Estados Unidos, 3 de fevereiro de 1874 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 27 de julho de 1946) foi uma escritora e poetisa norte-americana. 

      

(...) 

    

Tinha um apreciável círculo de amigos, como Pablo Picasso, Matisse, Georges Braque, Derain, Juan Gris, Apollinaire, Francis Picabia, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway e James Joyce.

Mrs. Stein era realmente genial e escreveu "Autobiografia de Alice B. Toklas", livro fundamental da vanguarda dos anos 1910, 20 e 30. Com estilo muito próprio, a narrativa conta como jovens artistas e escritores vindos das mais diversas partes do mundo se encontram em Paris e detonam novos caminhos para a arte. Picasso vinha da Catalunha, Joyce da Irlanda, ela própria vinha da América, Nijinski era russo, havia vários franceses, como Cocteau, Apollinaire, e Matisse. É bom lembrar que, apesar do nome, o livro foi escrito por Miss Stein, tendo como porta-voz Alice B. Toklas, sua companheira durante vinte e cinco anos.

     

Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1906

  

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