Gertrude Stein "Rose" d'Après "Le Monde est Rond"

"Once upon a time the world was round and you could go on it around and around" Gertrude Stein

En ce temps là le monde était rond et on pouvait en faire le tour à la ronde en rond. De toutes parts il y avait quelque part et de toutes parts il y avait des hommes des femmes des enfants des chiens des vaches des sangliers des petits lapins des chats des lézards et des animaux. C’est ainsi que c’était. Et chacun chiens chats moutons lapins et lézards et enfants tous voulaient tout en dire à chacun et ils voulaient tout dire d’eux-mêmes.......

ROSE - Spectacle de marionnettes - Cie AMK
d'après "Le Monde est Rond" de Gertrude Stein

« Un récit pour les enfants et les philosophes »
Donald Sutherland

Ecrit pour une petite fille de neuf ans, rose d’aiguy, the world is round révèle les rapports profonds de la langue steinienne, réputée difficile, avec la langue enfantine : les rapports du cubisme et du jeux de cubes.
dans un bruissement d’alitérations,
sur une musique de comptines, rose affronte le cercle enchanteur
et infernal du monde, à la recherche
de son identité.
a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.


ROSE D'AIGUY

I am Rose my eyes are blue

I am Rose and who are you

I am rose and when I sing

I am Rose like anything

Rose Is a Gertrude

TIME MAGAZINE Monday, Oct. 09, 1939

THE WORLD Is ROUND—Gertrude Stem —William R. Scott ($2.50).

When her publishers suggested that she write a children's book, Gertrude Stem was delighted with the idea. Many a grown-up and many a child will be delighted with the result, especially if grownups follow directions by reading it out loud-"if you have any trouble, read faster and faster." The World Is Round has 34 chapters about a little girl named Rose and her cousin Willie. Long and serious practice has given witty Miss Stem a mastery over itty language that puts most children's writers in the shade. Any child can understand such information as:

"The thing that bothered Willie the most

Was that when there was no wind blowing

A twig in a bush would get going

Just as if the wind was blowing."

The Rose in the book is a real person: Rose Lucy Renee Anne d'Aiguy, nine years old a neighbor and friend of Gertrude Stein at Bilignin, a village near Belley, where Miss Stein has her country house. Gertrude "likes Rose's way of thinking because Rose helped her remember "all the things that troubled my own child hood." Gertrude read most of the book to Rose as it was being written, translating into French as she went along, and Rose suggested numerous incidents. Says Gertrude" "Rose likes her book; she likes her book very much." Gertrude also says it will be a short war, and she is not planning to do any ambulance work this time.