Gertrude Stein Livres

«Le Monde est rond» est le plus célèbre des livres de Gertrude Stein à destination des enfants. Initialement paru en 1939, il est actuellement épuisé dans sa version intégrale en français. Après la découverte du «Livre de lecture», les éditions Cambourakis poursuivent donc leur travail de redécouverte de textes majeurs de Gertrude Stein, servie par une nouvelle traduction de Martin Richet et des illustrations d'Alice Lorenzi, qui avaient déjà travaillé sur le précédent volume. On y suit les tribulations de deux enfants, Rose et Willie, en quête d'identité au milieu d'une faune et d'une flore luxuriante. On y retrouve les éléments caractéristiques de l'écriture de Gertrude Stein, sa manipulation de la grammaire, les allitérations, le tout culminant dans la célèbre ritournelle « a rose is a rose is a rose », gravée sur un arbre sur le chemin des deux enfants.

The Making of Americans is not really a novel, as Gertrude Stein's narrator says-"not just an ordinary kind of novel with a plot and conversations to amuse you"-but an attempt at a thorough and exacting distillation of the essential properties of peoples' behavior. Through sentences that seem to repeat themselves, we are presented, on the surface, with a portrait of the "simple middle class monotonous tradition" as enacted by generations of the Dehning and Hersland families and their acquaintances. Underneath this is a slow, sieved attempt at something like total knowledge, an excavation of an overwhelming impulse "to understand the complete being in each one and all the details of their coming to have in them their kind of feeling...anything in them that gives to them inside them the feeling of being distinguished to themselves inside them."

This 14-CD boxed set contains nearly 900 minutes of notable American poets reading their own poems. The collection features 453 poems by 100 poets, including such luminaries as Adrienne Rich, Allen Ginsburg, Anne Sexton, Anthony Hecht, Archibald Macleish, Carl Sandburg, Denise Levertov, Donald Hall, Dorothy Parker, e.e. cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Ezra Pound, Galway Kinnell, Gertrude Stein, Gwendolyn Brooks, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Howard Nemerov, James Dickey, James Merrill, James Wright, John Ashbery, John Berryman, John Hollander, John Updike, Karl Shapiro, Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth, Langston Hughes, Louise Bogan, Marianne Moore, Mark Strand, May Swenson, Muriel Rukeyser, Ogden Nash, Randall Jarrell, Richard Wilbur, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Robert Frost, Robert Lowell, Ruth Stone, Stanley Kunitz, Sylvia Plath, T.S. Eliot, Theodore Roethke, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Yvor Winters, among many others.

Set in the fictional American town of Bridgepoint, this 1909 work features three independent stories that explore the lives of different characters. Each narrative delves into the intricacies of personal experiences and relationships, showcasing Gertrude Stein's innovative style and her focus on the subtleties of everyday life. The stories interconnect thematically, offering a rich tapestry of human emotion and interaction.

First published in 1909, this modernist classic showcases Stein's unique and thought-provoking writing style. Tender Buttons challenges conventional narrative forms, exploring everyday objects and experiences through innovative language and structure. The work invites readers to engage with its abstract themes and playful use of words, making it a seminal piece in modern literature.

First published in 1936 and long out of print, The Geographical History of America brings together prose pieces, dialogues, philosophical meditations, and playlets by one of the century's most influential experimental writers. This short but brilliant book offers a dimension of Gertrude Stein's thinking not available elsewhere. Here Stein sets forth her view of the human what it is, how it works, and how it is different from - and more interesting than - human nature.Geographical History also elaborates on Stein's concepts of identity, landscape, presence, and composition. Today, as literary discourse pays more attention to textuality, to voice, reader-response, and phenomenology, Stein emerges as a pioneering modernist to whom the century is slowly catching up. For those in the performing arts, Geographical History further addresses the notion of play as landscape, one of Stein's most influential theatrical ideas, as well as such issues as dialogue, character, and dramatic structure - in a book that is itself a model of modern experimentation.

Fragmentary, unabashed, erotic―“Lifting Belly” is a singular lesbian love poem from modernist Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) which lays bare desire and easy intimacy—now in a beautifully packaged edition. What is it when it’s upset. It isn’t in the room. Moonlight and darkness. Sleep and not sleep. We sleep every night. What was it. I said lifting belly. You didn’t say it. I said I mean lifting belly. Don’t misunderstand me. Do you. Do you lift everybody in that way. No. You are to say No. Lifting belly. How are you. Lifting belly how are you lifting belly. We like a fire and we don’t mind if it smokes. Do you. ―From “Lifting Belly” Each palm–size book in the Counterpoints series is meant to stay with you, whether safely in your pocket or long after you turn the last page. From short stories to essays to poems, these little books celebrate our most–beloved writers, whose work encapsulates the spirit of Counterpoint Press: cutting–edge, wide–ranging, and independent.

"Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written, now illustrated by Maira Kalman"-- Provided by publisher