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US: Lume Books, 2016. Paperback. Very Good. Modernism was a literary movement at the start of the twentieth century tha t wanted to 'make it new'. Dispensing with traditional form and structure, some of the most challengin g works of English literature emerged from this era, and its authors Virgin ia Woolf, James Joyce and Ezra Pound. Gertrude Stein was herself a modernist writer and playwright who spearheade d the movement, developing her 'continuous present' style of narration. Amo ng her many dense works is How to Write, a work that still challenges and p rovokes today's readers. In the book, Stein uses the English language in ways that seem unorthodox. Her syntax and grammatical control is loose, and there is no real message i n what 'proper writing' should be. It remains a sort of text for her way of writing, with a repetitious style that delights in the abstract nature of words and of language. A typical paragraph reads as follows: 'When they like help they like help. They have it. They like it for them. T hey have it. They make the most of it which is why they wish. They will wis h to have it. Made for them what they have in the way of advising and they need hope. They will allow themselves all for it. They might without which wish. In a way. They must like whatever they do.' The book is split into eight sections, including 'sentences', 'forensics' a nd 'a grammarian', but the 120,000 words blend into one absorbing whole. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American-born writer who moved to Paris, becoming part of the 'Lost Generation' which brought Hemingway and Fitzgerald to her salon. Her best-known works include her memoir, The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas,
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