My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy – a boundary pushing work of which the modernist would be proud

By Robin Styles, Researcher in the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds

My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein is Deborah Levy’s latest genre-defying novel. It is at once a compelling contemporary fiction and an extended meditation on the importance of Stein, who Levy describes as the godmother of modernism, a queer icon, a self-declared genius and a writer who has baffled readers and critics for a century.

The structure of Levy’s novel artfully embraces many of Stein’s concerns. Stein was an artist…

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