Artful By Ali Smith Hamish Hamilton, (ISBN: ). pp Katy Hastie (University of Glasgow) ‘Ten points to the first person who hears someone say the words Walter Benjamin’ (P) Smith’s narrator teases with meta-fictive glee in the first chapter of Artful. In-jokes should probably be expected from the author of such experimental. Smith's heady powers as a fiction writer harmonize with her keen perceptions as a reader and critic to form a living thing that reminds us that life and art are never separate. Artful is a book about the things art can do, the things art is full of, and the quicksilver nature of all artfulness. It glances off artists and writers from Michelangelo through Dickens, then all the way past postmodernity, exploring every form, from . · These are the fragments that Smith pulls together to make Artful, originally her own series of four comparative literature – or "litter-ature!" – lectures given at St Anne's College, Oxford Author: Victoria Segal.
Artful is a gift from Ali Smith to her reader. It's a book no one else could have written, or would have. Smith has a critic's eye, but fills her book with the novelist's art, and the novelist's. Originally four lectures given by Ali Smith at Oxford University, Artful is a tidal wave of ideas in four thematically organised bursts of thought: 'On Time', 'On Form', 'On Edge' and 'On Offer and On Reflection'. Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a. Ali Smith was born in Inverness in She is the author of Spring, Winter, Autumn, Public library and other stories, How to be both, Shire, Artful, There but for the, The first person and other stories, Girl Meets Boy, The Accidental, The whole story and other stories, Hotel World, Other stories and other stories, Like and Free www.doorway.ru World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the.
Artful is a gift from Ali Smith to her reader. It's a book no one else could have written, or would have. Smith has a critic's eye, but fills her book with the novelist's art, and the novelist's heart.". The Scottish novelist Ali Smith’s slim new book, “Artful,” is equal parts ghost story and academic treatise: a set of lectures by a dead writer placed, like the filling of a dumpling, inside. Ali Smith is a Scottish writer best known for the daring and unconventional narrative style she employs in her fiction writing. She is the author of four short story collections and five novels, which have by and large been received with critical acclaim. She has been shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Continue reading "Artful".
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