Gertrude Stein considered herself an experimalestal author and wrote what The Poetry Foundation calls “dense poems and fictions, usually devoid of plot or dialogue,” with the outcome being that “commercial publishers slighted her experimalestal writings and critics dismissed them as incomprehensible.” Take, for examinationple, what happened when Stein despatched a personuscript to Alfred C. Fifield, a London-based publisher, and acquired a rejection letter mocking her prose in return. According to Letters of Word, the personuscript in question was published a few years later as her modernist novel, The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family’s Progress (1925). You may hear Stein learning a selection from the novel under.
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