Title | : | Tender Buttons |
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Author | : | Gertrude Stein |
Release | : | 1914-01-01 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Fiction & Literature, Books |
Size | : | 52540 |
The book is renowned for its Modernist approach to portraying the everyday object and is lauded as a "masterpiece of verbal Cubism". Its first poem, "A Carafe, That Is a Blind Glass", is arguable its most famous and is usually cited as one of the quintessential pieces of Cubist literature. While it has been praised for its avant-garde approach at portraying the mundane, it has also been criticized as "a modernist triumph, a spectacular failure, a collection of confusing gibberish, and an intentional hoax. |