My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein

A Fiction

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Beschreibung

<p><b>'In one short and sly book after another, [Levy] writes about characters navigating swerves of history and sexuality, and the social and personal rootlessness that accompanies both' </b><i><b>Atlantic</b></i></p><p>Who was Gertrude Stein?</p><p>Avant-garde American poet and art collector who made her home in Paris, godmother of modernism, queer icon, friend to Picasso and Hemingway, self-declared genius - a writer who has baffled readers and critics for a century.</p><p>And why does she matter?</p><p>The narrator of Deborah Levy's latest, dazzling fiction has gone to Paris to find out. There she meets Eva with the blinding gaze, an artist in a long-distance marriage, and Fanny, a sexually adventurous financier; together they cook, walk, read and argue late into the nights.</p><p>As Paris sweeps her along in its ceaseless flow, she thinks - about what we have to lose to become modern, navigating anxiety, living with uncertainty, angry fathers, making a new life in another country, art and language - how all these things looked to Gertrude Stein in the early days of the twentieth century, and how they look to her and her friends in the early twenty-first.</p><p>This is a book about how we put ourselves together- an exhilarating, witty, cosmopolitan meditation on the pleasures and challenges of friendship, desire and living with other people. But it is also crashes through genre to create an inspired portrait of Stein herself: a writer who experimented fearlessly with a new way of living and who wrestled herself free from the nineteenth century to invent a brand-new way of looking at the world.</p><p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS BOOK AWARD 2026</b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780241457801

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

223 x 142 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)