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A review by darshreads
Intimations by Zadie Smith
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Can all books be read to me by Zadie Smith, going forward, please?
What a voice! I mean that both tonally and in terms of her writing.
Intimations is a short and reflective collection of essays about life in 2020(well, till July of it)
It's Zadie Smith's benevolent effort to make sense of the unusual and heartbreaking experience of living in a pandemic, of living as a writer, of living as a black woman.
She offers the absurdity of these intersections as a lens to view society and it's pre existing conditions - the racial and class conflicts, the breakdown of community, the stupor of what suffering can do to anyone. Her narrative is incisive and self aware and it really suits her role as a keen observer in the world.
This book was a wonderful companion to me on long walks last week and it helped me place what this cultural and societal shift will bring about in literature. Who else to pioneer us through it than Zadie Smith?
What a voice! I mean that both tonally and in terms of her writing.
Intimations is a short and reflective collection of essays about life in 2020(well, till July of it)
It's Zadie Smith's benevolent effort to make sense of the unusual and heartbreaking experience of living in a pandemic, of living as a writer, of living as a black woman.
She offers the absurdity of these intersections as a lens to view society and it's pre existing conditions - the racial and class conflicts, the breakdown of community, the stupor of what suffering can do to anyone. Her narrative is incisive and self aware and it really suits her role as a keen observer in the world.
This book was a wonderful companion to me on long walks last week and it helped me place what this cultural and societal shift will bring about in literature. Who else to pioneer us through it than Zadie Smith?