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The Making of Americans

By Gertrude Stein

The Making of Americans

By Gertrude Stein

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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 monotonous tradition" as enacted by generations of the Dehning and Hersland families and their acquaintances. Underneath this is a slow, sieved attempt at something like total knowledge, an excavation of an overwhelming impulse "to understand the complete being in each one and all the details of their coming to have in them their kind of feeling...anything in them that gives to them inside them the feeling of being distinguished to themselves inside them."
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
2
Number of Pages:
860
Release Date:
2025-10-07
Publication Date:
2025-10-07
Publisher:
Long Day Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN13:
9798349594960
Weight:
1369 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
50 cm
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