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Stein, Gertrude

(Allegheny, Pittsburgh, Penn. 1874-1946 Neuilly-sur-Seine) : Schriftstellerin, Dichterin

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Chronology Entries (4)

# Year Text Linked Data
1 1913-1937 Stein, Gerturde. Works.
1913
Stein, Gertrude. Old and old.
"Go in pour the chain for it full of China. Full of china choice up. Full of china crossed in. Full of China. Full of chin that has china. Chin and china. China."

1914
Stein, Gertrude. Tender buttons : objects, food, rooms. (New York, N.Y. : Claire Marie, 1914). [Geschrieben 1912].
Cooking
"Alas, alas the pull alas the bell alas the coach in china, alas the little put in leaf also the wedding butter meat, alas the receptacle, alas the back shape of mussle, mussle and soda."
Food. A centre in a table.
"It was a way a day, this made some sum. Suppose a cod liver a cod liver is an oil, suppose a cod liver oil is tunny, suppose a cod liver oil tunny is pressed suppose a cod liver oil tunny pressed is china and secret with a bestow a bestow reed, a reed to be a reed to be, in a reed to be."
Rooms
"A little lingering lion and a Chinese chair, all the handsome cheese which is stone, all of it and a choice, a choice of a blotter."
"China is not down when there are plates, lights are not ponderous and incalculable."
Alike and a snail, this means Chinamen, it does there is no doubt that to be right is more than perfect there is no doubt and glass is confusing it confuses the substance which was a color."
"China is not down when there are plates, lights are not ponderous and incalculable."

1922
Stein, Gertrude. If you had three husbands. Their end. In : Broom ; vol. 1, no. 3 (Jan. 1922).
"Ornaments.
And china.
It isn’t at all."

1922
Stein, Gertrude. Lend a hand or four religions. MS notebook III.
"She attaches it or in that way kneeling in a way in that way, in that way kneeling and being a chinese Christian meditatively."
"At first she had always thought she had always fought for the religion and she was kneeling there where the water was flowing and she was a chinese Christian and she could furnish a house as well and the meadows were for men and the orange trees pass and are inclosed with glass."
"Is there a stable there and are there chinese Christians not to stare but to kneel in prayer there where the water is flowing…"

1922
Stein, Gertrude. Geography and plays. (Boston : Four Seas Company, 1922).
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33403/33403-h/33403-h.htm.
Sacred Emily
Next to barber.
Next to barber bury.
Next to barber bury china.
Next to barber bury china glass.
Next to barber china and glass.
Next to barber and china.
Next to barber and hurry.
Next to hurry.
Next to hurry and glass and china.
Next to hurry and glass and hurry.
Next to hurry and hurry.
Next to hurry and hurry.

He said it
"Some people like a strong odor like china lilies or almond flowers or even tube-roses. I like them very much. I like them all very much. Do you."
Their end
Why have they pots.
Ornaments.
And china.

Reflections
"China. Whenever he went to the colonies his sister was hurt in an automobile accident. This did not mean that she suffered."

Scenes. Actions and disposition of relations and positions
"All the time is dark and there is a light and the time to think is the time to paint and the grey blue purple is the red rose color and the pink white cover is the fine broken china."
"So much persistance, so much elbow place, so much single authority and able china, so much more and a cold bigger, that means that there is thieves.
To be so particular shows that there is a difference in copying and copying is copying a picture, and copying is copying a piece of sugar, and copying is copying china."

Mexico : a play
"Who has neglected Chinese lillies."

The king or something
"Can you think about me.
Do you think about the Chinese."

1929
Stein, Gertrude. An instant answer or a hundred prominent men. In : transition 13 (Summer 1929). [Geschrieben 1922].
"How do the hours come to be longer. Longer than what, longer than English French, Italian, North and South American Japanese and Chinese."

1932
Stein, Gertrude. Four saints in three acts. In : Stein, Gertrude. Operas and plays. (Paris : Plain ed., 1932). [Geschrieben 1929].
"If it were possible to kill five thousand chinamen by pressing a button would it be done."

1933
Stein, Gertrude. The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas [ID D30410].
"I gave Fernande [Olivier] a chinese gown from San Francisco and Pablo [Picasso] gave me a lovely drawing."
"He [Andrew Green] had a prodigious memory and could recite all of Milton's Paradise lost by heart and also all the translations of chinese poems of which Gertrude Stein was very fond. He had been in China and he was later to live permanently in the South Sea islands…"
"After that she [Ellen La Motte] and Emily Chadbourne went to China and after that became leaders of the anti-opium campaign."
"Some lower their voices, some raise them, some get an English accent, some even get a german accent, some drawl, some speak in a very high tense voice, and some go chinese or Spanish and do not move the lips."
"It was wet and dark and there were a few people, one did not know whether they were chinamen or Europeans."

1935
Stein, Gertrude. The gradual making of Americans. In : Stein, Gertrude. Lectures in America. (New York, N.Y. : Random House, 1935).
"And so The Making of Americans has been done. It must be remembered that whether they are Chinamen or Americans there are the same kinds of men and women and one can describe all the kinds of them. This I might have done."

1936
Stein, Getrude. The geographical history of America ; or, The relation of human nature to the human mind. (New York, N.Y. : Random House, 1936).
"In china china is not china it is an earthen ware. In China there is no need of China because in China china is china. All who liked china like china and have china. China in America like china in America and all who like china in America do not like to have china in china be an earthen ware. Therefore it is not."

1937
Stein, Gertrude. Everybody's autobiography. (New York, N.Y. : Random House, 1937).
"We have Chinese servants now and sometimes the name they say they are has nothing to do with what they are they may have borrowed or gambled away their reference and they seem to be there or not there as well with my name and anyway the Oriental, and perhaps a name there is not a name, is invading the Western world."
"But of course Saint Therese was not interested she was building convents in Spain why should she be interested in Chinamen."
"It is trouble-some, not counting, anybody can count, even if like the Spanish women and Chinamen they count with pebbles what is troublesome is religion when counting gets to be religion it gets to be troublesome."
"Fathers are depressing and China was more a land of mothers than it was a land of fathers."
"That has of course nothing to do with Trac although Thornton Wilder's childhood was passed in China."
"… a Chinese boy probably from the island of Hanau went away first day."
"… he said the one the only thing that has always worried me was an old Negro who was killed right near that Chinese corner."
"After all the natural way to count is not that one and one make two but to go on counting by one and one as Chinamen do as anybody does as Spaniards do."
"Action is now a Chinamen, he has been teaching in China a long time and I imagine he really look and feel like a Chinaman some people can and he will and does and can."
2 1934-1935 Stein, Gertrude ; Van Vechten, Carl. The letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946. Ed. by Edward Burns. Vol. 1-2. (New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Press, 1986).
1934
Letter from Gertrude Stein to Carl Van Vechten ; [postmark 21 Sept. 1934].
Trac will have his, then our first China boy is so jealous he quite dropped tears…
1935
Letter from Carl Van Vechten to Gerturde Stein ; 18 March [1935].
Willy Seabrook says he'll come down for the Garden Party (organdies please, with the sweet-pea design) although it be held in China, which perhaps it will be.
3 1934 Warren, Lansing. Gertrude Stein views life and politics. [Interview].
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/03/specials/stein-views.html.
Gertrude Stein : "Building a Chinese wall is always bad.
4 1936 Moore, Marianne. Perspicuous opacity. In : The Nation ; no 143 (24 Oct. 1936). [Review of The Geographical History of America, or The Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind, by Gertrude Stein, with an introduction by Thornton Wilder (Random House).]
To like reading and writing is to like words. The root meaning, as contrasted with the meaning in use, is like the triple painting on projecting lamellae, which – according as one stands in front, at the right, or at the left – shows a different picture. "In China china is not china it is an earthen ware. In China there is no need of China because in china china is china."
  • Document: Moore, Marianne. The complete prose of Marianne Moore. Ed. and with an introd. by Patricia C. Willis. (New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1986). S. 340. (Moo7, Publication)
  • Person: Moore, Marianne

Bibliography (9)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1933 Stein, Gertrude. The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. (New York, N.Y. : Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1933).
http://www.archive.org/stream/selectedwritings030280mbp/selectedwritings030280mbp_djvu.txt. 		Publication / Stein2
2 1945 [Stein, Gertrude]. Jie fang shi rong yao de. Qiuquluo Sitanyin zhu ; Xu Chi yi. (Chongqing : Xin qun chu ban she, 1945). [Übersetzung von Short stories von Stein].
解放是榮耀的 		Publication / Stein5
3 1946 Stein, Gertrude. Selected writings of Gertrude Stein. Ed. with an introd. and notes by Carl Van Vechten. (New York, N.Y. : Random House, 1946).
http://www.archive.org/stream/selectedwritings030280mbp/selectedwritings030280mbp_djvu.txt. 		Publication / Stein1
4 1996 Stein, Gertude ; Wilder, Thornton. The letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder. Ed. by Edward Burns and Ulla E. Dydo with William Rice. (New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1996). Publication / Wild15
  • Cited by: Zentralbibliothek Zürich (ZB, Organisation)
  • Person: Burns, Edward
  • Person: Wilder, Thornton
5 1996 [Stein, Gertrude]. San ge nü ren. Getelude Sitaiyin zhu ; Cao Yong, Shen Yu yi. (Beijing : Zuo jia, 1996). (Sitaiyin wen ji. Xiao shuo juan). Übersetzung von Stein, Gertrude. Three lives. (New York, N.Y. : Vintage Books, 1909).
三個女人 		Publication / Stein8
6 1997 [Stein, Gertrude]. Leinuoci fu ren. Wang Yiqun yi. (Beijing : Zuo jia, 1997). (Sitaiyin wen ji. Xiao shuo juan). Übersetzung von Stein, Gertrude. Mrs. Reynolds. In : Stein, Gertrude. Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes. (New Haven, Con. : Yale University Press, 1952). Publication / Stein6
7 1997 [Stein, Gertrude]. Ruan niu kou. Getelude Sitaiyin zhu ; Pu Long, Wang Yiguo yi ; Shen Huihui zhu bian ; Li Dengke bian wei [et al.]. (Beijing : Zuo jia chu ban she, 1997). (Sitaiyin wen ji. Sui bi juan). Übersetzung von Stein, Gertrude. Tender buttons : objects, food, rooms. (New York, N.Y. : Claire Marie, 1914). [Geschrieben 1912].
軟紐扣 		Publication / Stein7
8 1997 [Stein, Gertrude]. Ailisizi zhuan. Getelude Sitaiyin zhu ; Zhang Yujiu yi. (Beijing : Zuo jia chu ban she, 1997). (Sitaiyin wen ji. Zi chuan juan). Übersetzung von Toklas, Alice B. The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. (New York, N.Y. : Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1933). [Betr. Gerturde Stein].
艾丽斯自传 		Publication / Stein4
9 2002 Stein, Gertrude. The Getrude Stein reader : the great American pioneer of avant-garde letters. Ed. with an introduction by Richard Kostelanetz. (New York, N.Y. : Cooper Square Press, 2002).
http://books.google.ch/books?hl=de&id=FJ0AxsGw_ZgC&q=china#v=snippet&q=china&f=false. 		Publication / Stein3

Secondary Literature (3)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1933 [Wilson, Edmund]. [Akeseer de cheng bao]. Cao Baohua yi. In : Beiping chen bao ; 4., 5., 7. Dez. (1933). Übersetzung der Einführung von Wilson, Edmund. Axel's castle : a study in the imaginative literature of 1870-1930. (New York, N.Y. : C. Scribner's sons, 1931). [Einführung über W.B. Yeats, Paul Valéry, T.S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Arthur Rimbaud, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam].
阿克瑟尔的城堡 		Publication / Prou38
  • Cited by: Zhang, Yinde. Eléments nouveaux de la réception de Proust en Chine. In : Bulletin Marcel-Proust ; no 54 (2004). (Prou1, Published)
  • Cited by: Worldcat/OCLC (WC, Web)
  • Person: Cao, Baohua
  • Person: Eliot, T.S.
  • Person: Joyce, James
  • Person: Proust, Marcel
  • Person: Rimbaud, Arthur
  • Person: Valéry, Paul
  • Person: Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Auguste de
  • Person: Wilson, Edmund
  • Person: Yeats, William Butler
2 1997 Alfrey, Shawn H. Oriental peaceful penetration : Gertrude Stein and the end of Europe. In : The Massachusetts review ; vol. 38, no 3 (1997).
http://www.jstor.org/stable/25091353. 		Publication / Stein10
  • Cited by: Asien-Orient-Institut Universität Zürich (AOI, Organisation)
3 2009 Park, Josephine Nock-Hee. The Orients of Gertrude Stein.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/article/College-Literature/207020623.html. 		Publication / Stein9