Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector who spent most of her life in Paris, where she became a central figure of the modernist movement.
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What Are Master-Pieces and Why Are There So Few of Them
Stein's paradoxical inquiry into why masterpieces exist outside of time and identity — and why memory, that most personal of faculties, is the enemy of the truly great work.