The New Criterion
America’s leading review of the arts and intellectual life
- Harry Mount, the London Telegraph
FeaturesMay 1998 The sense of Gertrude Stein by Donald Lyons On the two-volume Gertrude Stein published by the Library of America, edited by Catharine R. Stimpson & Harriet Chessman “You have a foolish notion that to be middle-class is to be vulgar, that to cherish the ideals of respectability and decency is to be commonplace and that to be the mother of children is to be low. You tell me that I am not middle class and that I can believe in none of these things because I am not vulgar, common-place and low, but it is just there where you make your mistake.” The speaker is Adele, a big young American girl from Baltimore; she’s arguing with two rather bohemian fellow voyagers on a ship to Europe. Adele has thrown herself prone on the deck with the freedom of movement and the simple instinct for comfort that suggested a land of laziness and sunshine. She nestled close to the bare boards as if accustomed to make the hard earth soft by loving it. She made just a few wriggling movements to adapt her large curves to the projecting ... This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 16 May 1998, on page 11 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/gertrudestein-lyons-3046
rate this article for your user profile
E-mail to friend
|
by Donald Lyons A review of Euripides. Vol. 5: Helen, Phoenician Women, Orestes. Vol. 6: The Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus, edited by David Kovacs. by Donald Lyons A review of Satyricon by Petronius, translated by Sarah Ruden. Christopher, for better & for worse On the critic, polemicist & raconteur Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011).
Webcasts
Anthony Daniels on the Euro Crisis
Andrew C. McCarthy: The Muslim Threat
Roger Kimball: The Grim Future of Statism Weblog 
|
add a comment
you must have an account to post a comment. {register now}