Readers love Ali Smith’s novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and—good news for fans!—is the first installment in a quartet. Seasonal, comprised of four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as are the seasons), explores what time is, how we experi...
Readers love Ali Smith’s novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and—good news for fans!—is the first installment in a quartet. Seasonal, comprised of four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as are the seasons), explores what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy, and the color hit of Pop Art, Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means.
I appreciate the work& its intention but tbh i‘m very confused - the chapter about Boty felt like a different book, and the whole book is made out of references, requires researches to fully understan...I appreciate the work& its intention but tbh i‘m very confused - the chapter about Boty felt like a different book, and the whole book is made out of references, requires researches to fully understand but doesn’t add much. Some snippets are good, language being (deceptively?) simple. But too many things on surface level - the last chapter is, bad.(展开)
Bombarding that fence with people's histories and with the artefacts of less cruel and more philanthropic times when the trees are revealing their structures and all the souls are out marauding. Still...Bombarding that fence with people's histories and with the artefacts of less cruel and more philanthropic times when the trees are revealing their structures and all the souls are out marauding. Still there're roses and there'll be more roses in this darkening night time. So keep searching for the scarlet till it lights up each translucent body.(展开)
一开始只是阅读，到最后发现是个忘年恋。想到了《On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous》,但明显没有Oclean Vuong写得更让我动情。去英国邮局换护照工作人员为了一张照片的纠结，写出了英国人的古板。但和Danial又是那么自然，虽然没有过多表露，但看得出女主的爱意浓厚。和母亲的互动也是又关心又嫌弃。Boty Scandal 63, 波普艺术，女权等等，都是需要一些背景...一开始只是阅读，到最后发现是个忘年恋。想到了《On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous》,但明显没有Oclean Vuong写得更让我动情。去英国邮局换护照工作人员为了一张照片的纠结，写出了英国人的古板。但和Danial又是那么自然，虽然没有过多表露，但看得出女主的爱意浓厚。和母亲的互动也是又关心又嫌弃。Boty Scandal 63, 波普艺术，女权等等，都是需要一些背景挖掘。似乎看懂了，似乎没看懂，云里雾里的感觉。就像阅读理解考试，迷迷糊糊读完还没做题时那种恍惚。(展开)
Winter is moving forward, autumn had been long gone. But Elisabeth's autumn is like a winter, when Daniel wakes up and greets her. The correspondence of our names, the very similar story. Ali would never know that I made a decision to go back while reading...
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最近计划刷掉17年的Man Booker Prize shortlist，这是读的第一本，是一本很……神奇的小说，我必须得承认没全看懂……但还是断断续续花了一个星期看完了。 小说的主线——if there was any——并不复杂，讲述的是一对相差七十岁的忘年交的故事，按作者的说法这是英国脱欧之后她...
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阿莉·史密斯 作者
灵林玖玖
浙江文艺出版社2019版
默扉
浙江文艺出版社2019版
樱汐读书
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薇子
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LizL
2 有用 country bread 2019-10-23 11:51:08
I appreciate the work& its intention but tbh i‘m very confused - the chapter about Boty felt like a different book, and the whole book is made out of references, requires researches to fully understan... I appreciate the work& its intention but tbh i‘m very confused - the chapter about Boty felt like a different book, and the whole book is made out of references, requires researches to fully understand but doesn’t add much. Some snippets are good, language being (deceptively?) simple. But too many things on surface level - the last chapter is, bad. (展开)
2 有用 LizL 2018-01-30 21:00:02
Ali真的是Man Booker的村上春树了... 如果喜欢Plath或者Harper Lee是一个阶段，我目前读过的所有女作家里能在下一阶段的就只有Ali了，关内关外字里行间的民主情怀，读过Ali就会知道“文艺”这个词太过分的被滥用了...Autumn是四季之歌里的第一本，最近好像Winter刚出版吧。这本比较小，刚好快快看完接着Winter。
1 有用 崇光 2021-12-31 15:12:55
Bombarding that fence with people's histories and with the artefacts of less cruel and more philanthropic times when the trees are revealing their structures and all the souls are out marauding. Still... Bombarding that fence with people's histories and with the artefacts of less cruel and more philanthropic times when the trees are revealing their structures and all the souls are out marauding. Still there're roses and there'll be more roses in this darkening night time. So keep searching for the scarlet till it lights up each translucent body. (展开)
7 有用 拉维克 2017-10-27 01:48:42
这一次书里的人物把手表扔进运河，表明作者已经不再纠结于时间对叙事的制约，她写四季系列，以季节来涵泳故事，突破了时间单线前进的命运，因为季节是可以重复的!这其实是咱们东方人一直都有的境界。女主对男主(两人估计相差六七十岁)绵延了一辈子的情愫非常动人，现实中的例子可参考朱天文和胡兰成
1 有用 黄小米 2018-03-06 04:09:23
简单到没有故事，但就是全面刺激那些你不知道还存在的微妙感性神经。
0 有用 Ιάννης Ξενάκης 2024-05-08 21:09:54 广东
这大姐要这水平还诺奖热门诺奖就要倒闭了
0 有用 mintlagon 2024-04-23 03:53:19 加拿大
我将手表飞进河里 我把时间抛开 忘却了时间轮转 打破了空间的阻隔 睁眼 见到你很高兴 你在读什么 最后好感动 加上对女画家叙述的穿插和在brexit下的美丽新世界人们的错乱不适的描述 作者真的很睿智
0 有用 whatif 2024-02-12 17:39:34 越南
在富国岛的海边读完了这本书。 It’s beautiful and I wish I could relate more.
0 有用 - 2024-01-27 15:18:39 上海
差点东西，想讨论的很多，叙事的结构其实也不算新颖了。很多大段的无意识的呓语，破碎的描述，怎么说呢感觉作者在这点上做得并不好，至少没有打动我，同样类似笔法的女作者有很多遣词造句更强的。百八十岁老头和八岁女孩的情谊我也觉得呃，理论上来说这种碎片、闪回的讲述都会很触动我，但这本有种沉重感，不是严肃的沉重，而想轻盈却不能浮起来的那种。如果她的书都是这样我应该不会再看了，没有什么亮点，英国脱欧、女权都泛泛而... 差点东西，想讨论的很多，叙事的结构其实也不算新颖了。很多大段的无意识的呓语，破碎的描述，怎么说呢感觉作者在这点上做得并不好，至少没有打动我，同样类似笔法的女作者有很多遣词造句更强的。百八十岁老头和八岁女孩的情谊我也觉得呃，理论上来说这种碎片、闪回的讲述都会很触动我，但这本有种沉重感，不是严肃的沉重，而想轻盈却不能浮起来的那种。如果她的书都是这样我应该不会再看了，没有什么亮点，英国脱欧、女权都泛泛而谈，要说是私人化的情绪写作又没显得那么真诚动人。 (展开)
0 有用 ママ 2023-12-08 22:19:12 浙江
一开始只是阅读，到最后发现是个忘年恋。想到了《On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous》,但明显没有Oclean Vuong写得更让我动情。去英国邮局换护照工作人员为了一张照片的纠结，写出了英国人的古板。但和Danial又是那么自然，虽然没有过多表露，但看得出女主的爱意浓厚。和母亲的互动也是又关心又嫌弃。Boty Scandal 63, 波普艺术，女权等等，都是需要一些背景... 一开始只是阅读，到最后发现是个忘年恋。想到了《On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous》,但明显没有Oclean Vuong写得更让我动情。去英国邮局换护照工作人员为了一张照片的纠结，写出了英国人的古板。但和Danial又是那么自然，虽然没有过多表露，但看得出女主的爱意浓厚。和母亲的互动也是又关心又嫌弃。Boty Scandal 63, 波普艺术，女权等等，都是需要一些背景挖掘。似乎看懂了，似乎没看懂，云里雾里的感觉。就像阅读理解考试，迷迷糊糊读完还没做题时那种恍惚。 (展开)