Parizh. Frantsiia. Lichnye vopominaniia - Stain G.

The name of the American writer Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) is known even to those who have never read her works. She was the one who christened the young people who returned from world war, the lost generation. She said that the artist needs not critics, but connoisseurs. The task of her letter she saw was to destroy the superficiality of the reader's perception, to return the word to its depth. Over this, each in its own way, fought and its other contemporaries - writers and art theorists: Joyce, futurists, OPOES, oberuts and many others. But Stein was one of the most radical, and it is no coincidence that she acquired the fame of the ancestor of modernism. Her manner of writing is calculated as if to read aloud, not with her eyes. There is almost no punctuation in its proposals. "People think without punctuation," Stein wrote. In the book "Paris France" (of course, without a comma), Stein describes life in the south of France at the beginning of World War II - back in the time when...