Aspects of melancholy in the novel "Autumn" by Ali Smith
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Ali Smith, Bachelard, Pauline Boty, Brexit, melancholy, nostalgia, ekphrasisAbstract
Ali Smith is a great creator of melancholic atmospheres. In her novel Autumn we are submerged in the nostalgia of life by a hundred years old man, Daniel. A nostalgia that acquires political aspects in the young Elisabeth, who is facing the loss of rights and liberties in the Brexit Great Britain. We then reflect on her childhood memories and Daniel’s recurrent nostalgia for his dead sister and the forgotten painter Pauline Boty. These situations are framed by the autumn that hangs over them, but allows the emergence of shades of colour from which the desolate environment can be surmounted. I examine this kaleidoscope of melancholic aspects, which concludes with the modern melancholy, posited by Bartra, and the consideration of the transcription with the ink of melancholy that, as Starobinski says, transforms darkness into light.Downloads
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