Does anyone really understand Gertrude Stein?
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Deborah Levy’s latest novel, My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein, promenades joyously through the City of Light in search of its subject, but sometimes it can feel a little style-over-substance.
Stein was the American novelist who went into self-imposed exile in Paris in 1903 and lived there for nearly 40 years. Today she’s best known for sayings like “there is no there”, about her home town of Oakland, California, and for her misleadingly titled 1933 best-seller The Autobiography of Alice B T
Stein was the American novelist who went into self-imposed exile in Paris in 1903 and lived there for nearly 40 years. Today she’s best known for sayings like “there is no there”, about her home town of Oakland, California, and for her misleadingly titled 1933 best-seller The Autobiography of Alice B T
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