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IDB Productions, 2017-01-01. MP3 CD. New. Geography and Plays is a 1922 compendium of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness works. These stream-of-consciousness tests, elegiac essays or "portraits", were aimed to arouse "the excitingness of pure being" and can be shown as literature's response to Cubism, plasticity, and assortment. Though the fiction has been defined as "a marvellous and painstaking achievement in setting down approximately 80,000 words which mean nothing at all," it is regarded as among the influential pieces of Gertrude. </br></br>Gertrude Stein was a United States author, poet, dramatist, and collector of art works. She was born in the Allegheny West locality of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew in Oakland, California, Gertrude emigrated to Paris in 1903, and kept France as her dwelling for most of her life. She introduced a Paris salon, where the key characters of modernism in fiction and art,… Read More

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