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"In Conversation": Gertrude Stein's Speaker, Message, and Receiver in Painted Lace and other Pieces (1914-1937)

One of the most fruitful systems of thought to follow in these hermetic early works involves imaging and tracing the "conversations" of Stein's personae. She is in dialogue not only with readers, but with her lover, Alice B. Toklas, and also with various manifestations of her salon, both the knowing inner circle of friends and the judging but more distant outer circle of acquaintances, Stein's "public," including possible censors.1 Stein's narrators not only hold recognizable conversations with different listeners but also mention various "conversations" throughout Painted â– Lace. During the two decades of its composition, the conversations in her literary salon and in her writing undoubtedly interacted. Both can be seen as ways of "testing" different versions of the self on auditors with many