Alice Babette Toklas’s choice to live in the shadow of Gertrude Stein has prevented the establishment of her authorial reputation, despite the excellence of her belated writerly career. Disguised as cookbooks, her most important works of the Fifties and Sixties combine fictional and nonfictional genres such as travel writing and storytelling in a highly originally autobiographical mode. With the subtle allusions to Brillat-Savarin’s memories and Edith Wharton’s travel writings, and the internal references to Stein’s works, her Alice B. Toklas Cookbook weaves an intertextual network which has all the flavors of a modernist chef-d'oeuvre.
Consider the Menu Carefully. The Dining-Room Tales of Alice B. Toklas
MARANO, Salvatore
2005-01-01
Abstract
Alice Babette Toklas’s choice to live in the shadow of Gertrude Stein has prevented the establishment of her authorial reputation, despite the excellence of her belated writerly career. Disguised as cookbooks, her most important works of the Fifties and Sixties combine fictional and nonfictional genres such as travel writing and storytelling in a highly originally autobiographical mode. With the subtle allusions to Brillat-Savarin’s memories and Edith Wharton’s travel writings, and the internal references to Stein’s works, her Alice B. Toklas Cookbook weaves an intertextual network which has all the flavors of a modernist chef-d'oeuvre.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
