Gertrude Stein
I don't know if anyone else is having as much difficulty with Stein's writng as I am, but I can hardly stay awake. The portraits were very difficult for me to get through with all of the repetition. I feel as if I am reading the same sentence over and over again-I'm sure she had some reason for this-hopefully someone can point this out for me.
The one work I was interester in was "Melanctha." Thank God this actually had a story line to it. Yes, it was repetitious as well, but at least she was getting somewhere. The characters were also interesting even though I felt that at times the characters were somewhat similar.
Anyway, I guess I'm just looking for some feedback so that I don't think I'm the only one totally confused with her writings. I was looking on line and there are tons of websites dedicated to her work so I know that something has to be working there-I just hope I can find it soon!!
posted by Lauren's Blog | 1:33 PM
1 Comments:
Your recent post has me thinking about a comment of Williams' : no confusion, only difficulties.
As I read it anyhow, this isn't so much a claim that he's more brilliant than we are or that people don't actually often feel confused by life or reading assignments in English class!
But it's a kind of mind-over-matter mantra.... as in, I experience a problem - but rather than name it confusion (in the sense of a chaotic and unresolvable mess) I call it difficulty - something that holds me up, but a barrier that can be surmounted, or a necessary challenge, like climbing a mountain .... difficult but one can conceive of victory.
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