– Penguin Books, London 2005 ISBN 978-141-01039-7
Read from February 3rd till 21st
2016
My rating :
Do you recall
those books that make your day (your week, your year J)? Those books
that laugh at you from cover to cover without malice, reminding you that art is
nothing but ludic, that the pleasure of the text (to borrow Barthes’s phrase)
consists in blissfully and effortlessly enjoying both form and content? Those
books that do you sooo good?
Well, for
example David Lodge’s novels have always done this to me. And now, I’ve just
delightfully discovered Ali Smith’s Accidental,
another one of those friendly-reading books that teases the reader without
superficiality, that discloses its narrative techniques without becoming
annoying, that challenges both the writing know-how and the oh-so-serious literary
themes without trivializing them and, more important without intimidating the
reader. A book that doesn’t believe in complicated channels to deliver its
message, although its message is far for simple. A postmodern book that doesn’t
let you forget it is postmodern, but that doesn’t let you grow an inferiority
complex because of it, either.