Gertrude Stein
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English
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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...