Geography and Plays

About this film

LibriVox recording of Geography and Plays, by Gertrude Stein. Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-of-consciousness experiments, rhythmical essays or "portraits", were designed to evoke "the excitingness of pure being" and can be seen as literature's answer to Cubism, plasticity, and collage. Although the book has been described as "a marvellous and painstaking achievement in setting down approximately 80,000 words which mean nothing at all," it is considered to be one of Stein's seminal works. (summary by wildemoose and Wikipedia) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B 01-23 (171MB) Download M4B 24-53 (175MB)

Directors & creators

Gertrude Stein

Subjects

librivox; literature; audiobook; gertrude stein; geography and plays; stream of consciousness; collage; cubism

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