![]() ![]() However, like much of Autumn, the relationship is tainted by the crude polemical point it is used to make.Īccording to Autumn, “it is the end of dialogue” (p.112), the world is cloven in two, and “all across the country, the country split in pieces” (p.61). ![]() Their relationship is woven into Elisabeth’s reflections on Brexit, serving as touching light relief from the book’s general gloominess. As Daniel enters his late-life ‘increased sleep period’, we accompany him through his dreams and through Elisabeth’s memories of him from her youth. ![]() It explores a few weeks in the life of university lecturer Elisabeth Demand and her dying neighbour Daniel Gluck, a wise old man who stands in as a representation of the knowledge, open-mindedness and wisdom of the past. From beginning to end, Smith strikes a mournful, anxious tone, looking ahead to the ‘winter’ of progressive politics that she predicts will follow the EU referendum vote. But it’s mostly about Brexit, and after reading Autumn, it’s pretty clear that Ali Smith is devastated about it. It’s also a book about Pop Art and family and nostalgia. Kate Bradley argues that Ali Smith’s Autumn is precisely the kind of book about Brexit we don’t need in our changing political climate.Īutumn is a novel about Brexit. ![]()
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