Great essay, as always. Amazingly informative. I'd also recommend "A Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway and "Blasting and Bombardiering" by Wyndham Lewis to anyone who's interested in right wing artists of the era and the London scene after the First World War in particular. I find many of Stein's points of view very similar to those Lewis expresses in the final chapters of that book.
You’d love it. It’s a masterpiece. His best book. Promise you. He’s got some funny anecdotes about Mrs. Stein and Wyndham Lewis, too, plus references to the authors he was reading at the time (D. H. Lawrence and lots of russians). He’s also not as left wing as people make him out to be. "For Whom the Bell Tolls", for example, has some pretty harsh words and scenes that paint the republican side in a not so good light.
Great Essay, I read it and got genuinely excited. This made me proud to be a subscriber of CC
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Great essay, as always. Amazingly informative. I'd also recommend "A Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway and "Blasting and Bombardiering" by Wyndham Lewis to anyone who's interested in right wing artists of the era and the London scene after the First World War in particular. I find many of Stein's points of view very similar to those Lewis expresses in the final chapters of that book.
Thanks, will read the Hemingway.
You’d love it. It’s a masterpiece. His best book. Promise you. He’s got some funny anecdotes about Mrs. Stein and Wyndham Lewis, too, plus references to the authors he was reading at the time (D. H. Lawrence and lots of russians). He’s also not as left wing as people make him out to be. "For Whom the Bell Tolls", for example, has some pretty harsh words and scenes that paint the republican side in a not so good light.
Okay, the book is in the mail. Eager to see what he says about Stein, Pound, Lewis, the whole gang.
I did not have Gertrude Stein = fascist on my bingo card today. I'm downright flabbergasted. I'm checking my calendar to see if it's April Fools Day.