Listen to Me
Fitzcarraldo Classic No. 15
- Author: Gertrude Stein (United States)
- Book type: lectures
- Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
- To be released: November 5, 2026
- Length: 328 pages
- Format: paperback / ebook
- Prize: £ 14,99
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Gertrude Stein Listen to Me reviews and information
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- “A treasure chest of pioneering, valuable, mind-expanding writing.” (Deborah Levy, author of My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein)
- “Every writer who lingers over Stein’s sentences is apt to feel a little stab of shame over the heedless predictability of his own.” (Janet Malcolm, The New Yorker)
Blurb of the Book with lectures by Gertrude Stein
In 1933, Gertrude Stein published her groundbreaking work The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which gained her instant celebrity. The following year she was invited to return to the United States for the first time since she departed for France in 1903, to give a series of lectures on art and literature. Newly famous, Stein delivered her lectures to packed audiences at universities, galleries, members’ clubs and public spaces up and down the country.
The lectures are vital and provocative works which articulate the legendary writer’s thoughts on the effect of modernism on literary form, the relationship between narrative and history, and between a writer, their work and its audience. In her trademark style she meditates on the creative possibilities of repetition, the relationship of artistic creations to time, as well as her ambivalence toward her own literary fame and the destabilizing effect that notoriety had on her daily life.
Listen to Me brings Stein’s sparklingly witty, illuminating lectures together in one volume for the first time, selected by her acclaimed biographer, Francesca Wade.
Gertrude Stein was born February 3, 1874 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. She was one of the original American Modernists. Born in Pennsylvania, she lived most of her life in Paris with her partner, Alice B. Toklas. Formally groundbreaking works like Three Lives (1909), Tender Buttons (1914) and The Making of Americans (1925) established her reputation as an avant-garde stylist, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas made her an international celebrity. As an experimental writer she has been an inspiration to countless novelists and poets, from Ernest Hemingway and Edith Sitwell to Jack Kerouac and Robert Duncan. She died at the age of 72 on July 27, 1948 in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France.