Three early pieces in Gertrude Stein’s repetitive, rhythmic manner: A Long Gay Book, which begins with babies and how one becomes a lady, Many Many Women, and G.M.P., whose initials stand for the title’s Matisse, Picasso and Stein herself. Sentences circle and return, building portraits of people out of being, feeling and doing.
A key text for anyone exploring literary modernism and the prose experiments Stein made alongside the painters of Cubism. Download the free EPUB.