Abstract
An interview with Ali Smith about her latest novel Companion Piece (2022), its relationship to her Seasonal Quartet (2016 –2020), and responding to contemporary society through fiction. In particular, Smith discusses how Companion Piece came out of Seasonal and writing fiction in relation to its own time and questions of both contemporaneity and history. This conversation also spans both recent and recurrent concerns throughout Smith’s writing, including: language and narrative, art in contemporary society, technology and capitalism, environmental crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This interview was held in-person on 24th June 2022 in Trinity College, University of Cambridge. The conversation transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for length.
Keywords
Ali Smith, Companion Piece, contemporary fiction, Seasonal, crisis
How to Cite
Calder, A. J., (2024) ““The question of dimension at every level”: An Interview with Ali Smith on Companion Piece, Contemporaneity, and Crisis”, C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings 11(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.10964
Funding
- Name
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Open-Oxford-Cambridge, Doctoral Training Partnership
- Funding ID
- [ref. AH/R012709/1]
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