![]() There are very few artists who make their audience – reader, viewer, subscriber – stop and consider the idea of art. You’re never sure whether the ideas are those of a character, the narrator, whether their being said aloud – she really blurs the lines between character, narrator and author. The way she deal with speech is also really interesting. You can definitely see that Smith has been inspired somewhat by Woolf, but she takes the use of brackets – to show different thing happening at the same time – to a whole other level. If this is true, Ali Smith reinvented the reinvented sentence. Someone once said that Virginia Woolf reinvented the sentence Finally, I have a summer with a bit of time and no set reads (yet), so I set about reading it. I had already read Hotel World and Girl Meets Boy, and thoroughly enjoyed them. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve had Ali Smith‘s The Accidental for over a year, and have wanted to read it much longer than this. ![]()
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