Land/escape. Gertrude Stein's Ida: An Instance of Land&scape

In this essay G. Stein's heroine, Ida, is analysed in her compelling nature of wanderer, escaping from all forms of confinement. The novel, written in 1940, therefore Stein's most mature period, portrays and sums up all the idiosyncratic features of the author's style and themes. Ida is Stein herself, in her painful isolation and dislocation, though perfectly fitting in the complex frame of "solitudes" within American culture. Recklessly narcissistic and individualistic, thoroughly anticanonical, Ida is emblematic of Stein's writing and experimental narrative, as well.