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Bass, Il`ia Zhizn` i Vremia Gertrudy Stain
[ The life and times of Gertrude Stein]
Moscow: Agraf, 2013 272 p Serie: Simvoly vremeni Hardcover. 13 x 20 cm ISBN: 9785778404366 Language: RussianThis is the first Russian biography of Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946), a noted American art collector of seminal modernist paintings and an experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays, which eschewed the narrative, linear, and temporal conventions of 19th century literature. In 1933, Stein published the memoirs of her Paris years titled The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which became a literary bestseller. The advent of this book elevated Stein from the relative obscurity of cult literary figure, into the light of mainstream attention.
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