MEMBER BLOG TAG: leora skolkin-smith
| Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:15AM | | | | PEN World Voices/Literary Films | Tags: PEN World Voices, Film, Leora Skolkin-Smith,
| | | (The event was an evening of short, literary films. It was held Tuesday, April 29 at 6 pm at the Goethe Institut in New York and referred to as: The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film Feast)
“It has always seemed to me a rare privilege this, of being an American,” Gertrude Stein wrote in her sweeping, beguiling epic, written in the 1920’s: “The Making of Americans” , “...a real American, one whose tradition it has taken scarcely sixty years to create. We need only realise our parents. remember our grandparents and know ourselves and our history is complete.” In “The Making of Americans”, Gertrude Stein also brought an odd and singular rhythm to these sentences and the ones that followed... | | | | | |
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