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Información de la obraSummer por Ali Smith (2020)
![]() Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Escrita durant la pandèmia. Criítica de la societat anglesa:en particular i de tota l'occidental per extensio :pandèmia, Boris Johnson, mascaretes, immigrats, crisi clímatica, ..... I think maybe I liked this one the best of the four. A bit more “accessible” perhaps. Lots of cool, somewhat intersecting stories, past and present, and I kind of wanted more from each. A lot of great characters and some interesting WW2-era history about detention camps in the UK. Sad note, this is the first novel I’ve read that has mentioned stuff about the COVID pandemic - it’s definitely part of the plot. Publication date was August 2020 so she must’ve still been writing in March or even April. I think you could really like “Summer” without having read the others, and I’m not sure at all there’d be any harm in reading them out of order. Listened to the audiobook. Jeg leser denne boken som min siste leste del av kvartetten - slik jeg tror den ble utgitt. Nye personer og tidligere kjente personer fra de andre bøkene dukker opp. Dialoger, indre monologer, fragmenter av personers minner av og til gjenfortalt med et tydelig og tildels fordreid perspektiv knyttet til den rådende fortellingen i tiden. Tilbakevending til behandling av mennesker - i krig, i kriser, med flyktninger, med internering, med dehumanisering, hvilken fortelling var det du brukte da du kom hit? Konstellasjonen mor og barn - barn som vokser og ikke husker og husker annerledes enn hva mor påstår. Hvem protesterte, hvilke politikere kom med hvilke trakasserende utsagn om andre raser og nasjonaliteter, brexit, frykten, raseriet. Og igjen ligger det hele i språket - hvordan Ali Smith bruker det - etymologien, resepsjonen, tekstbrokkene, sitatene, fortærende sagte og usagte handlinger mot hverandre. Hvordan få et slags puslespill til å gå opp når brikkene er hentete fra mange spill og mange brikker mangler og - det er ikke ett spill? Mest av alt om myteproduksjon og enkeltpersoner som utfordrer disse. Herlt avslutningvist bærer boken her et konkret minne om en solformiddag på verandaen der restene av en regnvåt natt fikk feste seg til enkelte av boksidene - slik bærer papiret ulike tegn; bokstaver som stiger opp og skaper mening for en leser og bølgete sider som fremkaller minner om en kanskje uforsiktighet ved å legge boken på et fuktig sted der sidene på et vis kommuniserer med omgivelsene ved å ta til seg noe fra dem - slik de gjorde når de var et tre. På det viset bæres rester og fragmenter videre - til forhåpentligvis noe helt. A worthy and fitting closing installment to this timely and fascinating series. Typical and still-delightful wordplay and imagination from Smith.
Like its two predecessors in Smith's acclaimed Seasonal Quartet (Autumn and Winter), this dynamic novel captures the many turmoils of life in the contemporary U.K. through ecstatic language and indirect narrative collisions. The first third, set mostly on a Scottish train platform, concerns Richard Lease, an over-the-hill TV and film director mourning his recently deceased collaborator, Paddy. Rife with nuanced reflections on the nature of art and mourning, Richard's ruminative section is the book's most immediate and engaging. After Richard lowers himself into the path of an oncoming train, readers meet his would-be rescuer, Brit, a security guard at a migrant detention facility. Brit has been lured into an impromptu journey by Florence, a pseudo-messianic young girl seemingly capable of inspiring empathy in even the darkest of hearts. The three mismatched characters are soon traveling together, on their way to an old battlefield where the violences of yesteryear and the present day will converge. As was the case with Autumn and Winter, the novel's setting is its foremost strength and increasingly enervating flaw, leading to writing that alternately astounds and exasperates. About three-quarters of the way through the third quarter of this series, the book's most memorable character, Richard, provides a relevant description of the whole enterprise, a response for every season: Gimmicky, but impressive all the same. Pertenece a las seriesSeasonal (4) Tiene como suplemento a
"In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile, the world's in meltdown--and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time. This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers. So: Where does family begin? And what do people who think they've got nothing in common have in common? Summer"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Summer is a fitting conclusion. While I can only award the individual novel 4 stars, the series as a whole certainly deserves 5.
The books are certainly filled with despair and fear, with that vertiginous feeling constantly rattling in the brains of those of us who know our history, utterly bewildered that all this can happen over and over again, and yet not surprised at all. Smith captures characters who cannot quite connect, who cannot quite see past their own worldviews to peer inside the minds of others. Yet, she also offers hope.
That hope has become harder to find, not just during the apocalyptic year of 2020, but during the entirety of my lifetime, the apex of the neoliberal movement. Smith's series is not an instruction manual, not a solution. Rather it is like the songs we sing in the darkness, to remind ourselves that we are not alone. It is a battle cry, or a gospel hymn. It reminds us that we are more than our worst selves. Like the late Shakespeare plays which are referenced frequently throughout the four volumes, Smith suggests that there is still magic in the web, that humans still have the capacity to overcome the dark times we have created, and metamorphose them into something rich and strange. (