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

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par 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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