內容簡介
內容簡介 時間，究竟改變了什麼？時間，究竟留下了什麼？我們是人生歷史的受害者，同時也是人生歷史的頌揚者。英國文壇耀眼新星艾莉‧史密斯（Ali Smith）新作－－「季節四部曲」第一部《秋》！◎ 2015年英國女性小說獎（Baileys Women's Prize）得主◎ 2014年柯斯達文學獎（Costa Novel Award）得主◎ 2014年英國曼布克獎（Man Booker Prize）決選季節與季節緊緊相連，生生不息地不斷循環藉由過去，挖掘現在……本書作者Ali Smith敢於冒險採取獨特的形式和敘事聲音，融合英國詩人濟慈的《秋頌》（“To Autumn”）般的寧靜坦然，與普普藝術的活力與鮮豔色彩，一個橫跨時間與歷史界線、突破傳統框架的愛情故事。Ali Smith談論她的新小說《Autumn》A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be bothFusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art - via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery - Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture, and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means.Autumn is the first installment in Ali Smith's novel quartet Seasonal: four standalone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are), exploring what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative.From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories, and a story about ageing and time and love and stories themselves.
