6/23/2023 0 Comments Two lives gertrude and alice![]() ![]() “This ‘transparent’ text has its curious evasions, the most obvious one being the avoidance of any overt reference to Stein’s real relationship with Alice Toklas. ” But even The Autobiography isn’t much help. What mediates between these two would seem to be the ‘open and public’ Autobiography of Alice B. On the other, there are the non-representational, hermetic works such as Tender Buttons and Stanzas in Meditation. In her 1988 essay “(Im)Personating Gertrude Stein,” Marjorie Perloff takes a sharp knife to Marty Martin’s Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein, the sort of one-character Hal Holbrooke–ish stage production popular in the 1970s and ’80s, and its presentation, as the publisher of the play had declared, of “true Stein style.” The crux of the matter is pretty simple: “On the one hand, there is the public persona, the legendary Gertrude of ‘A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose’ and the Picasso portrait. ![]()
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