ARTFUL

Artful presents, in book form, four lectures given by Ali Smith at Oxford University.Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or t he essay form, Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a former lover, the writer of a series of lectures about art and literature. Full of both the poignancy and humour of fiction and all the sideways insights and jaunty angles you would expect from Ali Smith's criticism, it explores form, style, life, love, death, mortality, immortality and what art and writing can mean.Part ...[Llegir més]