Fr. 29.90

Making of Americans

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 14.03.2023

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"In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein also meditates on her own writing, on the making of The Making of Americans, and on America"--

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Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was born in Pittsburgh to a prosperous German-Jewish family. She was educated in France and the United States, worked under the pioneering psychologist William James, and later studied medicine. With her brother Leo she was an important patron of the arts, acquiring works by many contemporary artists, most famously Picasso, while her home became a popular meeting place for writers and painters from Matisse to Hemingway. Her books include Three Lives, Tender Buttons, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

Steven Meyer is Associate Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis.

William H. Gass (1924-2017) was an essayist, novelist, and literary critic. He graduated from Kenyon College and received his PhD at Cornell University. He taught philosophy at both Purdue University and at Washington University in St. Louis where he was the David May Distinguished Professor of Humanities. In 1990, Gass founded the International Writers Center (now known as the Center for the Humanities) and served as its director until his retirement in 2000.


Summary

In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein also meditates on her own writing, on the making of The Making of Americans, and on America.

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“Indubitably the most monumental fiction to be given since the publication of Ulysses.”—Saturday Review of Literature

Product details

Authors Gertrude Stein
Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Release 14.03.2023, delayed
 
EAN 9781628974669
ISBN 978-1-62897-466-9
Series Dalkey Archive Essentials
Dalkey Essentials Series
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / Sagas, FICTION / Family Life / General

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