https://livesteven.com/2026/04/26/should-we-ever-regret-taking-the-risk-of-giving-a-straight-answer-to-a-queer-question-in-her-new-novel-my-year-in-paris-with-gertrude-stein-a-fiction-deborah-levy-examines-amongst-other-thing/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-04-26T07:34:45+00:00Should we ever regret taking the risk of giving a straight answer to a queer question? In her new novel, ‘My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: a fiction’, Deborah Levy examines, amongst other things why: ‘Stein had put so much in the way. In the way of understanding. She did not believe in it’. The narrator of the novel continually asks: ‘What is it?’ of numerous ‘its’ that are so often getting lost to good, ill or mixed ends. What’s wrong with being always understood?dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1918, writing, books, book-review, fiction, gertrude-stein, my-year-in-paris-with-gertrude-stein-a-fiction, deborah-levy, modernism