‘The novel can’t just leave the war out’: Ali Smith on fiction in times of crisis

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‘The novel can’t just leave the war out’: Ali Smith on fiction in times of crisis
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The Orwell Prize winning author looks at how the first world war forced writers Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf to rip up convention - and asks if today’s conflicts demand a similarly radical response

They’re all three about perilous times and societal and institutional forms of exclusion, what it does to the human spirit, and how that pressure reforms us – and about the way the story is told and the possibilities that arise from this.: I couldn’t help but be reminded of one of the most timely meetings of two writers in the history of literature and what came, exactly a century ago, of the great pain and the massive changes that made what they wrote possible.

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