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Tender Buttons: Objects—Food—Rooms

by Gertrude Stein

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This work is a collection of experimental prose poems divided into three sections: "Objects," "Food," and "Rooms." Gertrude Stein employs unconventional language and repetition to portray ordinary items and settings from multiple perspectives. Her style challenges traditional syntax and semantics, reflecting influences from Cubist art by Pablo Picasso, and seeks to depict subjects beyond surface appearances. The text emphasizes the sensory and perceptual qualities of everyday objects, often presenting them in a fragmented, layered manner that invites varied interpretations.

Written and published in 1914, "Tender Buttons" exemplifies avant-garde literature of the early 20th century. It has generated debate regarding its meaning and artistic value, with some critics considering it a pioneering work of linguistic innovation, while others view it as opaque or nonsensical. The work’s experimental nature has made it a focus of scholarly analysis, particularly in relation to its themes of perception, sexuality, and the nature of language.

From the opening pages

A kind in glass and a cousin, a spectacle and nothing strange a single hurt color and an arrangement in a system to pointing. All this and not ordinary, not unordered in not resembling. The difference is spreading. GLAZED GLITTER. Nickel, what is nickel, it is originally rid of a cover. The change in that is that red weakens an hour. The change has come. There is no search. But there is, there is that hope and that interpretation and sometime, surely any is unwelcome, sometime there is breath and there will be a sinecure and charming very charming is that clean and cleansing. Certainly glittering is handsome and convincing. There is no gratitude in mercy and in medicine. There can be breakages in Japanese. That is no programme. That is no color chosen. It was chosen yesterday, that showed spitting and perhaps washing and polishing. It certainly showed no obligation and perhaps if borrowing is not natural there is some use in giving. A SUBSTANCE IN A CUSHION. The change of color is likely and a difference a very little difference is prepared. Sugar is not a vegetable. Callous is something that hardening leaves behind what will be soft if there is a genuine interest in there being present as many girls as men. Does this change. It shows that dirt is clean when there is a volume. A cushion has that cover. Supposing you do not like to change, supposing it is very clean that there is no change in appearance, supposing that there is regularity and a costume is that any the worse than an oyster and an exchange. Come to season that is there any extreme use in feather and cotton. Is there not much more joy in a table and more chairs and very likely roundness and a place to put them. A circle of fine card board and a chance to see a tassel. What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it. The question does not come before there is a quotation. In any kind of place there is a top to covering and it is a pleasure at any rate there is some venturing in refusing to believe nonsense. It shows what use there is in a whole piece if one uses it and it is extreme and very likely…

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