Introduction

Abstract

Describing her own work in Everybody’s Autobiography, Gertrude Stein comments: ‘My writing is clear as mud, but mud settles and clear streams run on and disappear’ (104). As we consider Stein’s work in the pages that follow, reader be warned: We will be digging in the mud. That is, we will focus on Stein’s experimental writing, the work that presents the greatest difficulty for readers.