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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Listen to Me 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.