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(3.64) | 11 | "On almost every Saturday of the first half of the twentieth century, Gertrude Stein would open her door to the likes of Picasso and Matisse, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Cocteau and Apollinaire, welcoming them into a salon alive with vivid avant-garde paintings and sparkling intellectual conversation. In Charmed Circle, James R. Mellow has re-created this fascinating world and the complex woman who dominated it. His engaging narrative illuminates Stein's writing--now celebrated along with the work of such literary giants as Joyce and Woolf--including her difficult early periods, which adapted cubism and abstraction to the written word. Rich with detail and insight, it conveys both the serene rhythms of daily life with her devoted partner, Alice B. Toklas, and the radical pulse and dramatic upheavals of her exciting era."--… (mehr) |
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That subject is Gertrude Stein and her circle of friends. The friends include Picasso, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Juan Gris, Matisse, Cezanne, and many, many others. Those people and that time and place fascinate me, and I've read accounts about and by many of them. And I must say that of all those fascinating and talented people, Gertrude seems to me to be the least talented.
On the other hand, it is fascinating to see how far she got with so little going for her. What she had in her favor was a brother who was a brilliant art collector, and the luck of being in the right place at the right time. She had an ego to rival that of Salvador Dali, but not the talent. She helped many young writers, but would usually drop them if they reached a level to be a threat to her professionally. She supported Petain if not because she was a fascist, then at least because it was in her own self-interest to do so. I think her greatest attribute was her personality that many people found profoundly attractive. I also give her credit for forming a lifelong bond with her partner Alice Toklas. They were together for 40 years, until her death. In that she was also lucky. (