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Ali Smith is simply brilliant. For me, Winter was more difficult to get into, but I ended up liking it more than Autumn.
Winter describes a Christmas gathering of a (typically) dysfunctional family. The family is made up of Sophie, her polar-opposite sister Iris, Sophie's son Art and Lux - a stranger Art paid to pretend to be his ex-girlfriend Charlotte.
Despite it being angry and very political, Winter had a certain air of lightness about it. I especially liked Lux, an outsider who brings chaos but also illuminates.
On the language front, Smith doesn't disappoint; her literary allusions and puns are plentiful. Nothing is accidental in her books.
She also has an unmatched sense of humour in contemporary literature. Reading her in translation would be a literary sin.
"I said, Art is seeing things. And your aunt said, that's a great description of what art is. "
The subtle reference to Autumn was beautiful. That was the turning point when I just fell in love with this book.
“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.”
In 2020, this rings especially relevant.
Winter describes a Christmas gathering of a (typically) dysfunctional family. The family is made up of Sophie, her polar-opposite sister Iris, Sophie's son Art and Lux - a stranger Art paid to pretend to be his ex-girlfriend Charlotte.
Despite it being angry and very political, Winter had a certain air of lightness about it. I especially liked Lux, an outsider who brings chaos but also illuminates.
On the language front, Smith doesn't disappoint; her literary allusions and puns are plentiful. Nothing is accidental in her books.
She also has an unmatched sense of humour in contemporary literature. Reading her in translation would be a literary sin.
"I said, Art is seeing things. And your aunt said, that's a great description of what art is. "
The subtle reference to Autumn was beautiful. That was the turning point when I just fell in love with this book.
“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.”
In 2020, this rings especially relevant.