The Making of Americans
Gertrude Stein author Steven Meyer editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
Publishing:1st Jan '26
£19.00
This title is due to be published on 1st January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Gertrude Stein’s monumental novel, back in print a century after its first publication.
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 itself.
“This sober, tender-hearted, very searching history of a family’s progress, comprehends in its picture of life which is distinctively American, a psychology which is universal.”—Marianne Moore, Dial
“The Making of Americans is the first announcement of what would be Stein’s greatest legacy—to reclaim the world of the nineteenth-century woman from such weird, smutty interlopers as Flaubert and, later, Joyce, and transform it into the most exalted ground of human potentiality available to us. . . . It is monumental, horribly flawed, and a joy to read if you just give up and drown in it.”—Matthew Stadler, The Stranger
“Indubitably the most monumental fiction to be given since the publication of Ulysses.”—Saturday Review of Literature
ISBN: 9781628974669
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