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A review by lsparrow
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
2.0
Like many of the classics I am glad to have read it - not for any personal enjoyment or love of the story or the writing but rather because of an understanding of the cultural references an of the times that it was written in.
I find what Stein does with writing, her ideas of using words to paint portraits or landscapes, her resistance to set structures, her play on perspective interesting.
As much as this book makes me interested to know more about her and think about how interesting it would be to talk to her I did not enjoy this book. It was a book that I pushed through to finish.
I find what Stein does with writing, her ideas of using words to paint portraits or landscapes, her resistance to set structures, her play on perspective interesting.
As much as this book makes me interested to know more about her and think about how interesting it would be to talk to her I did not enjoy this book. It was a book that I pushed through to finish.