during the war that the experimental language of modernism suddenly fails [Gertrude] Stein. Despite herself, she can't help but acknowledge the terror and fear, which gives way to a kind of frantic joy at the Liberation, but meanwhile the terror becomes displaced, focusing on the deportation of young Frenchmen rather than on the fate of Jews like herself.from The New York Review of Books: The Last Act
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