by Gertrude Stein · ALFABIA EDICIONES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788494589300
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Ida is a short novel, a long poem, and a modern fairy tale all in one. The story follows Ida's life from birth to adulthood, exploring her multiple marriages, moves, and her propensity for contemplative life. Ida is a fanciful woman who has surreal encounters with strangers and a great love for dogs. Whenever someone worries about looking for her, Ida is already somewhere else, embodying James Joyce's famous phrase: "Whatever happens, the right thing to do is to leave." Stein's writing assimilates the modes of modern painting, particularly cubism, to create a radical literature that challenges the limits of modernism.
Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet.
