Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith’s novels are like nothing else. A true original, she is a one-of-a-kind literary sensation. Her novels consistently attract serious acclaim and discussion—and have won her a dedicated readership who are drawn again and again to the warmth, humanity and humor of her voice.
How to be both is a novel all about art’s versatility. Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it’s a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There’s a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. There’s the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real—and all life’s givens get given a second chance.
A NOTE TO THE READER:
Who says stories reach everybody in the same order?
This novel can be read in two ways and this book provides you with both.
In half of all printed editions of the novel the narrative EYES comes before CAMERA.
In the other half of printed editions the narrative CAMERA precedes EYES.
The narratives are exactly the same in both versions, just in a different order.
The books are intentionally printed in two different ways, so that readers can randomly have different experiences reading the same text. So, depending on which edition you happen to receive, the book will be: EYES, CAMERA, or CAMERA, EYES. Enjoy the adventure.
發表於2024-11-21
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Playful And Serious? 'How To Be' Is Both December 6, 20146:28 AM ET Heller McAlpin Can a book be both linguistically playful and dead serious? Structurally innovative and reader-friendly? Mournful and joyful? Brainy and moving? Ali Smith's How To Be ...
評分Playful And Serious? 'How To Be' Is Both December 6, 20146:28 AM ET Heller McAlpin Can a book be both linguistically playful and dead serious? Structurally innovative and reader-friendly? Mournful and joyful? Brainy and moving? Ali Smith's How To Be ...
評分我們是否可以同時是女人也是男人,同時是現在也是過去? 在How to be both這本小說中,Ali Smith為我們講述瞭這樣一種可能性。 小說分為兩個部分:Camera和Eye Camera講述瞭21世紀倫敦,一個16歲,有著男性名字的女孩George。在她的非常嬉皮士的母親去世後,她如何走齣悲痛的故...
評分Playful And Serious? 'How To Be' Is Both December 6, 20146:28 AM ET Heller McAlpin Can a book be both linguistically playful and dead serious? Structurally innovative and reader-friendly? Mournful and joyful? Brainy and moving? Ali Smith's How To Be ...
評分i never enjoy ali smith's style, her sentences, simple, short, some may consider it poetic, but i think her smug. however this time something occured and the opinion changed. it happened when i was in a subway, it's around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and t...
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Pointless
評分這是一本關於重新思考事物雙重性的書--從書裏兩個獨立又相關的故事開始,Smith 用她一貫playful 的言語帶著讀者思考我們如此習以為常的兩麵(對立)性在生活中到底有多少現實意義?我們習慣也喜歡歸納,可人、事、物真的隻能是one thing or another 嗎?從書裏主人公擁有男性名字卻是女孩的George開始,到Francesco生為女性卻從著裝到舉止以男性的方式在意大利文藝復興時期活著,再到故事裏不停在藝術中探討的生死並存:活著的人和已逝者其實同時存在--在藝術中,也在迴憶裏,最後還有作者的巧思:挑戰傳統閱讀方式 (劇情A到B自然順時發展),這本書看讀者運氣,隨機拿到不同的版本,即讀的兩則故事順序不同,它的影響該很可能不僅是先後這兩麵瞭。個人更喜歡George 的故事。
評分It is not the style that i love.
評分好看!有趣!女權但不刻意。男女性彆的模糊不清,過去和現在的時間綫模糊不清,兩個故事的界限也模糊不清,於是就不在是男/女,過去/現在,這樣對立,而是how to be both。另外更喜歡女畫傢那個故事的寫法。
評分好看!有趣!女權但不刻意。男女性彆的模糊不清,過去和現在的時間綫模糊不清,兩個故事的界限也模糊不清,於是就不在是男/女,過去/現在,這樣對立,而是how to be both。另外更喜歡女畫傢那個故事的寫法。
How to be both 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載