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As I Was Saying

by Cecilia Konchar Farr

A guide to Gertrude Stein’s *The Making of Americans*

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A guide to Gertrude Stein’s *The Making of Americans*

Cecilia Konchar Farr and Janie Sisson’s reader’s guide is devoted to Gertrude Stein’s *The Making of Americans*, a modernist novel described as unfolding through repetition, overlapping and disintegrating plots, a large cast of characters, and sentences that can extend across pages. The guide offers an entry point into the novel’s experimental form and situates it within 20th-century American fiction. Its subject is both the work itself and the reading challenges posed by its structure.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers seeking guidance on Gertrude Stein’s *The Making of Americans*.
  • Students or general readers interested in modernist fiction and literary criticism.
  • Readers exploring experimental approaches to plot, repetition, and sentence structure.

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Gertrude SteinModernist fictionExperimental formReading and interpretation

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Book overview

An indispensable companion to Gertrude Stein's masterpiece, The Making of Americans.


One of the great works of 20th-century American fiction, Stein's novel represents a peak of modernist literature: filled with repetition, overlapping and disintegrating plots, innumerable characters, and sentences stretching over pages. It is an immensely rewarding book, but also a potentially frustrating one.

At last, Cecilia Konchar Farr and Janie Sisson offer a reader's guide--the first of its kind. As I Was Saying is proof that The Making of Americans is not unreadable as charged, and offers accessible entry to the experimental writing Stein valued and promoted most--the original modernist novel by the era's most influential author.

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