Geography and Plays

MP3 Audio CD. Geography and Plays is a 1922 compendium of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness works. These stream-of-consciousness tests, elegiac essays or "portraits", were aimed to arouse "the excitingness of pure being" and can be shown as literature's response to Cubism, plasticity, and assortment. Though the fiction has been defined as "a marvellous and painstaking achievement in setting down approximately 80,000 words which mean nothing at all," it is regarded as among the influential pieces of Gertrude.

Gertrude Stein was a United States author, poet, dramatist, and collector of art works. She was born in the Allegheny West locality of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew in Oakland, California, Gertrude emigrated to Paris in 1903, and kept France as her dwelling for most of her life. She introduced a Paris salon, where the key characters of modernism in fiction and art, involving Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Henri Matisse, would gather.

In 1933, Gertrude released a semi-account of her life in Paris, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, composed in the expression of her life mate, Alice B. Toklas, an American who joined the Parisian avant-garde. The autobiography was a fictional hit and sprung Gertrude from the comparative anonymity of the offbeat fictional extract into the publicity of conventional attention. Two citations from her writings have become largely recognized: "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" and "there is no there there", with the second one frequently in use to be a suggestion to her childhood house in Oakland, California.

Her novels contain Q.E.D. (Quod Erat Demonstrandum) (1903), of a lesbian love story including many of Gertrude?s lady friends, Fernhurst, an imaginary tale of a love story, Three Lives (1905?06), and The Making of Americans (1902?1911). In Tender Buttons (1914), she remarked on lesbian sexuality.