Autumn

Ali Smith is a writer, born in 1962 in Inverness, Scotland, to working-class parents. She was raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at Aberdeen, and then at Cambridge, for a Ph.D. that was never finished. In a 2004 interview with writing magazine Mslexia, she talked briefly about the difficulty of becoming ill with chronic fatigue syndrome for a year and how it forced her to give up her job as a lecturer at University of Strathclyde to focus on what she really wanted to do: writing. Openly gay, she has been with her partner Sarah Wood for 17 years and dedicates all her books to her.

出版者:Hamish Hamilton

作者:Ali Smith

页数:208

出版时间:2016-10-20

价格:GBP 14.99

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780241207000

图书标签:英国小说Ali-SmithAli_SmithAliSmith英文當代文學存在

A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both

Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art - via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery - 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.

Autumn is the first installment in Ali Smith's novel quartet Seasonal: four standalone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are), exploring what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative.

From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories, and a story about ageing and time and love and stories themselves.

读后感

生存是一个人活着没法去选择的事情，而年龄则是生存的标志，它代表的不仅仅是生存，还有我们逝去的青春，以及回不去的从前。 人总会在不同的时期对自己的人生有不同的感悟，关于生存，关于梦想，关于未来，关于老去，这都是我们抛却不了的话题。我们不得不面对，也必须去面对，...  

我像一个固执等待戈多的人 等他到来 他在哪里？ 我一直在寻找 一生的朋友有时候要等上一辈子才能遇到。 于是我想我需要耐心等待，或者继续寻找。也许会遇到，也许找不到。从童年时期，就总是一个人待着，喜欢看各种小说，可没有钱买书。喜欢透过窗口看树影斑驳；也希望自己灵魂...  

文：薇子 友谊可以跨越年龄的界限吗？ 可以。 13岁的伊丽莎白要完成一项学校布置的作业， 是有关于邻居的， 他们家的隔壁新搬来了一个邻居， 这位邻居已经80多岁，对于这位新邻居，伊丽莎白是好奇的。 两个年龄差距如此大的人成为了朋友，像丹尼尔说的一样， 是一生的朋友， 她...  

我像一个固执等待戈多的人 等他到来 他在哪里？ 我一直在寻找 一生的朋友有时候要等上一辈子才能遇到。 于是我想我需要耐心等待，或者继续寻找。也许会遇到，也许找不到。从童年时期，就总是一个人待着，喜欢看各种小说，可没有钱买书。喜欢透过窗口看树影斑驳；也希望自己灵魂...  

用户评价

Smith is definitely an author to look out for. Her writing is so unique, observant and creative. I was in treat with playful language.

三星不能再多了。这本书的确是在脱欧公投四个月后就出版了。老人和女孩之间的忘年交、英国女波普艺术家Pauline Boty 、脱欧、还有秋天的概念，这几部分之间互相没有什么关联同时出现在一本书里。时间轴来回跳跃，虚幻和现实交错。（中英版本都买了都了一遍，还有没有很喜欢。冬那本也买了，等冬天再读吧。

We are all time containers, the world is and will always be. We are at the present but the past, the future, the imagined are no alien to us, its an old story so new. 作者解构时间和小说的方式非常有趣，pun玩到飞起 non native speaker还是需要好的翻译帮忙。

三星不能再多了。这本书的确是在脱欧公投四个月后就出版了。老人和女孩之间的忘年交、英国女波普艺术家Pauline Boty 、脱欧、还有秋天的概念，这几部分之间互相没有什么关联同时出现在一本书里。时间轴来回跳跃，虚幻和现实交错。（中英版本都买了都了一遍，还有没有很喜欢。冬那本也买了，等冬天再读吧。

实验性小说，有点意思，但是开始时不明所以。有种看朗读者的感觉