As I Was Saying

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.

Author: Cecilia Konchar Farr,Janie Sisson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 12/16/2025
Series: Dalkey Archive Scholarly
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9781628974584