Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith’s novels are like nothing else. A true original, she is a one-of-a-kind literary sensation. Her novels consistently attract serious acclaim and discussion—and have won her a dedicated readership who are drawn again and again to the warmth, humanity and humor of her voice.
How to be both is a novel all about art’s versatility. Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it’s a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There’s a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. There’s the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real—and all life’s givens get given a second chance.
A NOTE TO THE READER:
Who says stories reach everybody in the same order?
This novel can be read in two ways and this book provides you with both.
In half of all printed editions of the novel the narrative EYES comes before CAMERA.
In the other half of printed editions the narrative CAMERA precedes EYES.
The narratives are exactly the same in both versions, just in a different order.
The books are intentionally printed in two different ways, so that readers can randomly have different experiences reading the same text. So, depending on which edition you happen to receive, the book will be: EYES, CAMERA, or CAMERA, EYES. Enjoy the adventure.
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i never enjoy ali smith's style, her sentences, simple, short, some may consider it poetic, but i think her smug. however this time something occured and the opinion changed. it happened when i was in a subway, it's around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and t...
评分我们是否可以同时是女人也是男人，同时是现在也是过去？ 在How to be both这本小说中，Ali Smith为我们讲述了这样一种可能性。 小说分为两个部分：Camera和Eye Camera讲述了21世纪伦敦，一个16岁，有着男性名字的女孩George。在她的非常嬉皮士的母亲去世后，她如何走出悲痛的故...
评分Playful And Serious? 'How To Be' Is Both December 6, 20146:28 AM ET Heller McAlpin Can a book be both linguistically playful and dead serious? Structurally innovative and reader-friendly? Mournful and joyful? Brainy and moving? Ali Smith's How To Be ...
评分我们是否可以同时是女人也是男人，同时是现在也是过去？ 在How to be both这本小说中，Ali Smith为我们讲述了这样一种可能性。 小说分为两个部分：Camera和Eye Camera讲述了21世纪伦敦，一个16岁，有着男性名字的女孩George。在她的非常嬉皮士的母亲去世后，她如何走出悲痛的故...
评分Playful And Serious? 'How To Be' Is Both December 6, 20146:28 AM ET Heller McAlpin Can a book be both linguistically playful and dead serious? Structurally innovative and reader-friendly? Mournful and joyful? Brainy and moving? Ali Smith's How To Be ...
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这个写法就是艺术...准备补一下Ali的（翻图书馆
评分这是一本关于重新思考事物双重性的书--从书里两个独立又相关的故事开始，Smith 用她一贯playful 的言语带着读者思考我们如此习以为常的两面（对立）性在生活中到底有多少现实意义？我们习惯也喜欢归纳，可人、事、物真的只能是one thing or another 吗？从书里主人公拥有男性名字却是女孩的George开始，到Francesco生为女性却从着装到举止以男性的方式在意大利文艺复兴时期活着，再到故事里不停在艺术中探讨的生死并存：活着的人和已逝者其实同时存在--在艺术中，也在回忆里，最后还有作者的巧思：挑战传统阅读方式 （剧情A到B自然顺时发展），这本书看读者运气，随机拿到不同的版本，即读的两则故事顺序不同，它的影响该很可能不仅是先后这两面了。个人更喜欢George 的故事。
评分好看！有趣！女权但不刻意。男女性别的模糊不清，过去和现在的时间线模糊不清，两个故事的界限也模糊不清，于是就不在是男/女，过去/现在，这样对立，而是how to be both。另外更喜欢女画家那个故事的写法。
评分好看！有趣！女权但不刻意。男女性别的模糊不清，过去和现在的时间线模糊不清，两个故事的界限也模糊不清，于是就不在是男/女，过去/现在，这样对立，而是how to be both。另外更喜欢女画家那个故事的写法。
评分最成功的地方在于叙事，不知道算不算意识流，但是非常流畅自然，回忆淡入淡出，像艺术片。camera那一部分是ali smith自己擅长的少女青春物语，eye 那一部分的故事就太像珍妮特温特森的小说了，性别反串，往事之悼，说理。不过两部分结合的非常好，很自然，这是加分的地方。
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