![]() ![]() We see this from the start in the novel when Daniel is dreaming that he is dead. Obviously many novelists look at time in a non-diachronous way and time is a key topic of many novels. We’re time-containers, we hold all our diachrony, our pasts and our futures (and also the pasts and futures of all the people who made us and who in turn we’ll help to make) in every one of our consecutive moments / minutes / days / years. In this interview, Smith mentioned that his book is, not surprisingly, about time. Elisabeth seems to be the only person who visits him. ![]() Daniel is now a hundred and one, living in a care home and clearly dying. ![]() Daniel acted as what Elisabeth described as her unofficial babysitter, though her mother denied this. of the world.) As a child, she and her mother lived next door to Daniel Gluck. (Her surname is, according to Daniel, a corruption of the French de monde, i.e. In it we follow two main characters: Elisabeth Demand, who is thirty-two, single and is a lecturer in history of art. This the first in Ali Smith’s Seasons tetralogy and allegedly the first post-Brexit novel. Home » Scotland » Ali Smith » Autumn Ali Smith: Autumn ![]()
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