Making of Americans
The Making of Americans is not really a novel, as Gertrude Stein''s narrator says-"not just an ordinary kind of novel with a plot and conversations to amuse you"-but an attempt at a thorough and exacting distillation of the essential properties of peoples'' behavior. Through sentences that seem to repeat themselves, we are presented, on the surface, with a portrait of the "simple middle class mono...
The Making of Americans is not really a novel, as Gertrude Stein''s narrator says-"not just an ordinary kind of novel with a plot and conversations to amuse you"-but an attempt at a thorough and exacting distillation of the essential properties of peoples'' behavior. Through sentences that seem to repeat themselves, we are presented, on the surface, with a portrait of the "simple middle class mono...
