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phy wasn t written by alice nor is it about her she exists only as an appendage to gertrude stein it is about their life together full of people activities travel the writing is straightforward and makes for fairly pleasant reading stein occupied a central place in the paris scene in the early 1900s when major changes were taking place in painting and writing but as for the many artists and authors who populate these pages a lot of them famous we get very little in depth characterization for example picasso appears quite often but i don t know much about the man parties visits talk stein loved these things and though we re told they happen they don t come to life stein deals in externals not feelings and this includes her relationship with alice the section of the book that had more of a story line concerns the years of wwi when she and alice delivered supplies to french hospitals my picture of stein herself is a bit hazy she seems pleasant intelligent opinionated strong willed people seemed to have liked her liked to be in contact with her mind she has fall outs with some but she writes critically of only one of them ernest hemingway she uses slang for the first and only time to call him yellow a word whose intent is to be hurtful he was still alive when the book came out this from a woman who elsewhere never displays cruelty it doesn t reflect well on her nor do i think hemingway was yellow and stein offers no reason for using that word in closing stein was disappointed that her writing was not appreciated something she dearly wanted one writes for oneself and for strangers but with no adventurous publishers how can one come into contact with those same strangers well gertrude i can answer your question which doesn t contain a question mark just as you appreciated the new movements in art which turned away from a depiction of humans cubism surrealism etc you also turned to writing which was unfathomable to humans such as the 1000 page the making of americans anyway in a business in which who do you know matters so much and you knew everybody of importance your obscure work did get published though probably read by very few you were fortunate to live in a time and place when innovation however worthless was valued and even considered to be genius when you were accessible such as in this book people did read and enjoy you a pity you turned to experimental writing experiments are for labs 3 three women gertrude stein the first and last stories the good anna and the gentle lena were about simple one dimensional characters and their portrayals were done with an effective simplicity but i found the long story much longer than the other two put together to be unreadable i tried but had quit on it for starters the title melanctha whoever heard of such a name and how the hell do you pronounce it she s referred to as black but stein makes her of mixed race probably her white blood in stein s mind qualified her to be a suitable subject to write about for her characters who are just plain niggers a word stein uses are not worth bothering with i objected to her portrayal of blacks i don t think stein knew squat about that race melanctha i m using copy and paste is exceedingly complex she engages in long long very long conversations with a black doctor also of mixed race their discussions full of repetitions and done with a sort of cadence is monotonous and pointless this is self indulgent writing i think stein put words on paper never revising letting her genius flow pure and unadulterated the melanctha section of three women is an early example of the experimental writing that i referred to in the previous review and which would take over most of stein s work delete a moveable feast ernest hemingway when i first read this memoir i may have been in a stage when i had a romanticized view of authors and writing and of hemingway that s long gone still i enjoyed his account of how things were when he was in his twenties living in paris with his wife hadley not that i believed much of what i was reading he s the hero of the piece in that he s always in control a solid sensible all knowing presence a man who has little to say while others around him carry on often foolishly feast is a falsification of the past or rather a glamorization hemingway was in his late fifties and early sixties when he wrote the book which was done in stages and he wasn t sound mentally and emotionally so maybe he was indulging in a pleasant fantasy he often claims that he was poor in the paris years and this simply isn t true he and hadley had plenty of money but poverty fits in with the image of a struggling writer living in a garret as for the many authors he interacts with one was gertrude stein if you read my review of her autobiography you probably wonder if he gets revenge for her comment about his being yellow not really he even considers melanctha to be very good his portrayal of her isn t a positive one she comes across as dictatorial and there s a scene where he overhears her begging in a demeaning way what i did find cruel was how he treated scott fitzgerald even if what happened between the two was true it should not have been written maybe jealousy played a role for fitzgerald was his competitor as a writer the book ends in an elegiac way all that was precious would be destroyed hemingway blames it on the rich who invade his and hadley s lives he writes of seeing hadley waiting for him at a railway station i wished that i had died before i ever loved anyone but her but he would have an affair that would lead to the end of the marriage as for hadley s presence in the book it s scanty her name doesn t appear until page 54 she s previously referred to as my wife the scribner hardcover edition has an insert a strange one written by jane kramer it mostly criticizes hemingway and debunks the facts of feast often harshly she calls it an old man s book petty and incontinent she finds the sentences pretentious as if some besotted hemingway student wrote them and then she gives a telling example she attacks him as a man especially his treatment of hadley so the question arises why was this introduction allowed by the lifelong publisher of his books hemingway committed suicide before feast was published it was edited by his last fourth wife mary and there s some controversy about how much was omitted and altered in her editing it s all so sad 3 the sun also rises ernest hemingway surprisingly i thought this novel was very good my surprise is due to the fact that i normally don t care for eh s work and i thought that sun was on the mmb list because when i first read it i was an impressionable teenager in my review of his letters i wrote that i liked them because they were spontaneous this novel has the same spontaneity we don t see the author laboring to find the one true word my interest was constant and i glided along the first person narrator jake barnes is mostly a detached observer he gets involved has feelings but they re muted in place of a plot we get episodes mainly the fiesta in spain where the bullfighting sequence takes place the novel is saturated with drinking people are often drunk the two main characters that jake interacts with are brett ashley and robert cohen both people are based on real life figures and both are portrayed unattractively cohen s jewishness is a factor in his unattractiveness there s a definite strain of anti semitism in the book the word kike appears too often as for lady brett she s no lady to me she isn t she s an alcoholic a beauty in her mid thirties and is a user she uses men as sexual partners then drops them she s not malicious but she still causes harm she claims and probably believes that she loves jake but there can be no sex between them due to a war injury he sustained except in regard to her no reference is made of this loss jake seems detached even from that still as noted he s an observer and the descriptions in the book are excellent i especially liked the fishing episode the dialogue of which there s a lot is spot on hemingway gets the various voices right is there a higher meaning in sun i don t see one it s just a well written entertaining excursion into a world long gone it was hemingway s first and many consider his greatest novel i would amend that by calling it his best novel he wrote it while still married to hadley but it was published after their separation he dedicates the book to her and to his son 4 posted by phillip routh at 10 53 am no comments labels ernest hemingway gertrude stein older posts home subscribe to posts atom i know it s not as impressive as having one s life changed by proust but here s what happened to me when i was in the seventh grade a teacher assigned to build a fire i was galvanized by it it opened worlds my reasoning was simple you mean that there are things as good as this this experience to be found on the pages of books and so i was off on a lifelong journey in this blog are capsule reviews which i began writing over ten years ago one rule was that i had to make it halfway through a book so those i abandoned before the halfway point go unmentioned this is not to say that all the books i ve reviewed met with my approval my likes and dislikes are strong and both feelings are well represented i have a bookcase which contains the work most meaningful to me all are listed below in alphabetical order by author some i read in my youth if i reread them now they might not stand up yet i value them for what they meant to me at the time in the list i ve noted the books which have been reviewed in this blog and at the end of a review an asterisk means that the book is one of the elite you can place a title or an author s name in the search blog to find specific posts or if you look way down on the left there s a list of all the authors reviewed first name first if you click on any of them all the posts that have a review of their 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