Autumn-秋

作者：Smith Ali

书名：Autumn《秋》

中文简介：美国《大西洋月刊》称《秋》为“描绘英国后退欧时期情绪的杰出作品”。小说讲述了32岁的历史讲师Elisabeth Demand到养老院探访她的忘年交Mr Gluck的故事。他们友谊随着共同阅读和共同创作的推进而不断加深，而此时正处于英国举行公投脱欧的关键时期。欧盟时期似乎已成为历史，而我们的生活与世界难道只能用线性的时间来丈量吗？个人的命运与宏大的时代背景究竟有着怎样的关系？处于一个看似即将分崩离析的社会环境中，什么才是能创造出有效对话的方式？在这本复杂的小说中，Ali Smith深刻剖析了时间、艺术、文学、历史等概念。

英文简介：Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That's what it felt like for Keats in 1819. How about Autumn 2016? Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand-in-hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever. 

Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. It is the first installment of her Seasonal quartet—four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are)—and it casts an eye over our own time. Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearean jeu d’esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art: the centuries cast their eyes over our own history making.