|
|
Автор: M Lynn Weiss
Год: 1998
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 168
ISBN: 9781604731880
The Stein-Wright connection and its meaning for American literature and literary history After the Second World War Gertrude Stein asked a friend's support in securing a visa for Richard Wright to visit Paris. "I've got to help him," she said. "You see, we are both members of a minority group." The brief, little-noted friendship of Stein and Wright began in 1945 with a letter. Over the next fifteen months, the two kept up a lively correspondence which culminated in Wright's visit to Paris in May of 1946 and ended with Stein's death a few months later. Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright began their careers as marginals within marginalized groups, and their desire to live peacefully in unorthodox marriages led them away from America and into permanent exile in France. Still, the obvious differences between them, in class, ethnic and racial origins, and in artistic expression, beg the question: What was there to talk about? This question opens a window onto each writer's meditations on...
|
|
