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Gertrude Stein: Writings
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Flamboyant though she may have been in life, 20th century arts icon Gertrude Stein is not the first author to whose writings one would typically turn for theatrical inspiration. Famous for her flowery tautology ("Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose") and other circular, often ponderous conundrums, the fiercely anarchic Stein trod a different path even in her plays, relying on cerebral deconstructions of language rather than the traditional dramatists' toolkit to render human experience on the stage.
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The Gertrude Stein Political Club of Greater Pittsburgh (GSPCGP) has endorsed Renee Farrow in the Special Elections for District 7 of the Pittsburgh City Council. The election will be held Tuesday, February 25, 2003.
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Note: As part of @times's feature on this project on America Online, Cynthia Ozick, who contributed the Gertrude Stein essay to this issue, will participate in an Auditorium on Monday, Nov. 25, at 9 P.M. Eastern time (Keyword: nyt). You may send questions to Ozick in advance by e-mail to CynOzick@aol.com.
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The great modernist writer Gertrude Stein was born in 1874 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania and died in her adopted home, Paris, in 1946. Stein's style of writing was at its best a celebration of language and at its worst unintelligible. She was an avant garde phenomenon, a media sensation, a friend and patron of some of the greatest artists of her time, and an open lesbian. Truly an impressive woman.
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Stein is the author of one of the earliest coming out stories, Q.E.D. (published in 1950 as Things as They Are), written in 1903 and suppressed by the author. The story, written during travels after dropping out, is based on a love triangle she joined while studying at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. The triangle was complicated in that Stein was less experienced with the closeted social dynamics of romantic friendship as well as her own sexuality and any moral dilemmas regarding it. Stein maintained at the time that she detested "passion in its many disguised forms". The relationships of Stein's acquaintances Mabel Haynes and Grace Lounsbury ended as Haynes started one with May Bookstaver. Stein fell in love with Bookstaver but was unsuccessful in advancing their relationship. Both Haynes and Lounsbury later married.
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It should be no surprise that one can write productively about Gertrude Stein's writings in terms of money. Born into wealth, she spent her own money to publish her many books; when necessary, she sold off paintings that she'd been given or had purchased to finance further publishing ventures. And when she became famous in France, after the end of World War II, and was asked for her autograph, she'd sign her name on a paper banknote.
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