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 . 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"Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. · “Artful” is a difficult, demanding book, contrarian in nature, a meditation on time that sidesteps the linear, a disquisition on form that refuses to www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins.
Artful By Ali Smith (The Penguin Press; pages; $) Jane Juska is the author of "A Round-Heeled Woman" and "Unaccompanied Women." E-mail: books@www.doorway.ru Top Picks In Shopping. "A stimulating combination of literary criticism, essay, and fiction" (The New Yorker) from the incomparable Ali Smith Artful is a celebration of literature's worth in and to the world—it is about the things art can do, the things art is made of, and the quicksilver nature of all artfulness. Ali Smith's new book, Artful, began as a series of lectures on comparative literature, given at Oxford last year. The lectures have been given a fictional shell, the story of an unnamed narrator.
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 ancient cave painting to s cinema musicals. “A stimulating combination of literary criticism, essay, and fiction” (The New Yorker) from the incomparable Ali Smith Artful is a celebration of literature’s worth in and to the world—it is about the things art can do, the things art is made of, and the quicksilver nature of all artfulness. 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.
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