The Notebooks of Gertrude Stein

1903 , book is Professor Leon Katz's long anticipated full reconstruction, editing, annotation and "decoding" of Gertrude Stein's Notebooks covering her early years in Paris and her creation of her great modernist masterpiece, . This book was born in Yale University's Beinecke Library in 1954, when Professor Katz found several boxes of Stein's papers and began to put them in order, soon realizing they contained not only the source material, from Gertrude's own life, that could for the first time make comprehensible the dense impenetrable prose of but also could shed enormous light on her famous life in France, her relationships with Picasso, Matisse, Hemingway and hundreds more. contains: Over the years and decades the reputation of this book has grown enormous.