You are, of course, never yourself', wrote Gertrude Stein in one of her famously witty autobiographies. Since the 1920s Stein has been celebrated in many incarnations: as the embodiment of Left Bank bohemia, as a patron of modern art and writing, as a gay icon, as the coiner of the expression Lost G[...]

Poetry. A seminal text in the history of poetry and poetics, TENDER BUTTONS was originally published in 1914 and is considered one of the great Modern experiments in verse. At one time or another it has been thought of as a masterpiece of Cubism, a modernist triumph, a spectacular failure, a collect[...]

Pablo Picasso was one of the most prodigious and revolutionary artists in the history of Western painting. Gertrude Stein was an avant-garde American writer, art collector, eccentric and self-styled genius. Her Paris home was the leading salon for artists and writers between the Wars. Picasso painte[...]

Paris Frankrike är Gertrude Steins hyllning till sitt andra hemland, till den franska kulturen, matlagningskonsten och hattmodet, till allt i landet som är "spännande och fridfullt". På sitt suveräna sätt berättar Stein om tidiga besök med familjen i Paris, den europeiska kulturens självkla[...]

En cd med utvalda historiska författarröstinspelningar och andra litterärt intressanta audiogram. Harriet Bosse berättar om hur det var att vara gift med August Strindberg. Hermann Hesse talar om hur den fullkomliga diktaren ska vara beskaffad. En tokig intervju med Gertrude Stein gjord under he[...]

Ida är Ida. En suicide blonde, en Dulcinea, en Garbo, en Gertrude Stein. En skönhetsdrottning som flytt sitt uppdrag; när Ida är på en plats vill hon alltid byta plats. Dessutom är Ida mycket upptagen. Med att vila. Och att gifta sig, sakta men säkert. Gertrude Stein är Gertrude Stein, och I[...]

Three Lives is comprised of the stories "The Good Anna," "Melanchtha," and "The Gentle Lena." "Melanchtha" is an adaptation of Q.E.D., Stein s first completed novel, which remained unpublished until four years after her death."Contexts" is divided into two sections "Biography" and "Intellectual Back[...]