Spring

Resumen del libro

What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times?Spring. The great connective. With an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tells the impossible tale of an impossible time.

In a time of walls and lockdown Smith opens the door. The time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story?Hope springs eternal.

Praise for the Seasonal Quartet:'Transcendental writing about art, death, political lies, and all the dimensions of love. It's a case not so much of reading between the lines as of being blinded by the light between the lines - in a good way' Deborah Levy on Autumn'The novel of the year is obviously Autumn, which managed the miracle of making at least a kind of sense out of post-Brexit Britain' Olivia Laing, Observer on Autumn'Ali Smith is flat-out brilliant, and she's on fire these days... Combining brainy playfulness with depth, topicality with timelessness, and complexity with accessibility while delivering an impassioned defence of human decency and art' NPR on Winter'Rank s among the most original, consoling and inspiring of the artistic responses to 'this mad and bitter mess' of the present' Financial Times on Winter'A novel of great ferocity, tenderness and generosity of spirit that you feel Dickens would have recognised...

Smith is engaged in an extended process of mythologizing the present states of Britain... Luminously beautiful' Observer on Winter

Biografía del autor

Ali Smith va néixer a Inverness lx{0026} x02019;any 1962 i viu a Cambridge. Abans de dedicar-se exclusivament a lx{0026} x02019;escriptura, va ser professora a la University of Strathclyde. Forma part de la Royal Society of Literature i els seus llibres han rebut nombrosos premis literaris i nominacions. Va revolucionar el món literari anglosaxó amb Com ser-ho alhora (Raig Verd, 2015), que ha estat guardonada amb el Goldsmith Prize (2014), el Costa Novel Award (2014) i el Book of the Year Award (2014), atorgat per la Saltire Society; a més, ha estat finalista del Man Booker Prize (2014), i nominada per al Folio Prize 2015. Lx{0026} x02019;accidental (Raig Verd, 2017) és una altra de les seves obres més importants, guanyadora del Whitbread Novel Award i lx{0026} x02019;Orange Prize for Fiction. Amb la publicació del quartet estacional que comprèn Tardor (Raig Verd, 2019), Hivern (Raig Verd, 2020), Primavera (Raig Verd, 2021) i Estiu (Raig Verd, 2022) i va tornar a meravellar els seus lectors. Sorprenent, lúcida, críticax{0026} x02026;, sempre ha estat considerada una de les escriptores més importants de les lletres britàniques, però amb lx{0026} x02019;execució del quartet estacional va rebre els elogis i el prestigi de la crítica i el públic per una obra que supera totes les expectatives . Amb lx{0026} x02019;obra La torna (Raig Verd, 2023), culmina el quartet estacional.