The Making of Americans
- Auteur: Gertrude Stein (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1925
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Dalkey Archive Press
- Reeks: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Verschijnt: 18 november 2025
- Omvang: 716 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: € 19,95 / € 8,95
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Gertrude Stein The Making of Americans review en recensie
- “This sober, tender-hearted, very searching history of a family’s progress, comprehends in its picture of life which is distinctively American, a psychology which is universal.” (Marianne Moore, Dial)
- “Indubitably the most monumental fiction to be given since the publication of Ulysses.” (Saturday Review of Literature)
- “The Making of Americans is the first announcement of what would be Stein’s greatest legacy–to reclaim the world of the nineteenth-century woman from such weird, smutty interlopers as Flaubert and, later, Joyce, and transform it into the most exalted ground of human potentiality available to us… It is monumental, horribly flawed, and a joy to read if you just give up and drown in it.” (Matthew Stadler, The Stranger)
Flaptekst van de roman uit 1925 van Gertrude Stein
In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell “a history of a family’s progress,” radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein also meditates on her own writing, on the making of The Making of Americans, and on America.
Gertrude Stein was born on 3 February 1874 in Allegheny, near Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, in to a prosperous German-Jewish 
family. She was educated in France and the United States, worked under the pioneering psychologist William James, and later studied medicine. With her brother Leo she was an important patron of the arts, acquiring works by many contemporary artists, most famously Picasso, while her home became a popular meeting place for writers and painters from Matisse to Hemingway. Her books include Three Lives, Tender Buttons, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. She died on 27 July 1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France at the age of 72 and was burried on the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.