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Blood on the Dining-Room Floor
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A quirky literary mystery from the iconic modernist writer known for her Jazz-Age Paris salon and bestselling book The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
Gertrude Stein was a distinctly unique talent who penned many novels, essays, and poems. And on one occasion, during a bout of writer’s block, she decided to play with the popular genre of mystery fiction.
The book that resulted, Blood on the Dining-Room Floor, is not your typical whodunit, just as Stein was not your typical author. With elements of her trademark avant-garde style, the story revolves around the mysterious passing of Madame Pernollet, who is found dead in the courtyard of a hotel owned by her husband.
Incorporating some autobiographical details from events at her own French country house, Stein invites the reader to play detective—and offers a glimpse into one of the early twentieth century’s most interesting and challenging literary minds.
Gertrude Stein was a distinctly unique talent who penned many novels, essays, and poems. And on one occasion, during a bout of writer’s block, she decided to play with the popular genre of mystery fiction.
The book that resulted, Blood on the Dining-Room Floor, is not your typical whodunit, just as Stein was not your typical author. With elements of her trademark avant-garde style, the story revolves around the mysterious passing of Madame Pernollet, who is found dead in the courtyard of a hotel owned by her husband.
Incorporating some autobiographical details from events at her own French country house, Stein invites the reader to play detective—and offers a glimpse into one of the early twentieth century’s most interesting and challenging literary minds.
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Ashton
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Mina Widding
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“Jag gick från madness till madness (läste Can Xue innan denna). Kanske gjorde det läsningen enklare, det var åtminstone inte underligare än The embroidered shoes, även om Stein förstås arbetar mer med att bryta upp meningsstrukturer och liknande, än Xue hör. Förstod jag vad berättelsen handlade om? Oklart. Inbillar mig att det eventuella mordet eventuellt hade att göra med en eventuell kärleksaffär mellan trädgårdsmästarens son och frun som dog. Men, som i så många abstrakta/surrealism texter så är det ju inte heller riktigt poängen.
På ett plan kan jag tänka mig att den här dekonstruktionens främsta funktion var att bearbeta de mystiska händelser som det står ligger bakom texten, vilket gör den mycket privat, och kanske inte ger en yttre läsare så mycket. Samtidigt känner jag att det finns något mer, som blir både en kommentar om händelserna, om detektivhistorier, och en exercis i medvetandebeskrivning - att få ned i ord hur någon tänker/en situation ter sig.
Så. Lite förvirrande men ändå en intressant läsresa.”
acid drinker
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“мені подобаються тексти з девіантними нараторами. серед моїх абсолютно улюблених персонажів є, наприклад, фолкнерові вардаман і бенджі. я тішуся з того, як за їхніми словами вибудовується сюжет, з того, як треба попрацювати, щоб склалася цілісна картинка.
але "кров на підлозі в їдальні" – це не той варіант. це пазл, частину шматочків якого замінили чужими, частину пожував пес, а ще частина витерлася до невпізнаваності. і найсумніше, що, пропонуючи його читачеві, ніхто навіть не спробував навести якийсь лад серед тих шматочків – ловіть що знайшлося, коротше (мене шалено вкурвила фраза з передмови про те, що "звісно, тут не могло йтися про жодні правки чи переписування". ну звісно). і тільки картинка на коробці – себто передмова – показує, яке воно мало би бути.
so overrated.”
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About Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was an American novelist and poet. Born in Pennsylvania, in 1903 she immigrated to France, where she would live for the rest of her life. The home on the Left Bank of Paris that she shared with her partner, Alice B. Toklas, became a cultural hub as young artists and writers began to gather there. As her salon rose to prominence, Stein befriended several expatriate authors living in Paris, including Djuna Barnes, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway. Stein has been credited with coining the term the lost generation to describe this group of writers. She died in France in 1946.
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