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EVERYBODY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Gertrude Stein-Random House...
...dull, almost unreadable series of names and numbers. The cosmic significance and literary value does not become evident until the reader has become experienced, and usually results in symptoms not unlike an aching in the head and eyes. It shows a tendency towards the method of expression of Gertrude Stein...
Subs: Dudley: Stein, Hearn, Abrahamson, Franklin; Dunster: Nussbaum...
Hemingway's chief mentors of the Pans period were Ezra Pound, erudite, eccentic poet and expatriate, who helped get Hemingway's first books published; Gertrude Stein, who, besides godmothering Hemingway's first child, John Hadley, had a lasting influence both on Hemingway's style and point of view. The friendships were not so lasting. "Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it," summed up Hemingway in his early career. "Gertrude was always right." The Stein-Hemingway feud has been...
...Gertrude Stein's remark to him ("You are all a lost generation") he used as motto for The Sun Also Rises, whence it took its wide currency. *Croaked the N. Y. Herald Tribune's Isabel Paterson: ''There is no loftiness of spirit in his books, and a book must have a soul to be great." Max Eastman accused Hemingway of having "... a literary style, you might say, of wearing false hair on the chest. . . ." J. B. Priestley spoke of ". . . Mr. Ernest Hemingway's raucous and swaggering masculinity, which I am beginning to find rather tiresome...