Aspects of the Novel · Character
Gertrude Stein
Modernist writer, cited for her experimental approach to character and narrative.
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First appearance: viii pattern and rhythm
Gertrude Stein shows up with force in II: The Story. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Discussed as the novelist who tried to abolish time from fiction, pulverizing the clock, but failed because destroying time-sequence makes fiction unintelligible.
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