I am so glad the someone agrees with me!!!

Kevin Michael Grace writes about Zadie Smith:

Too funny. There are many fine woman novelists, but #ZadieSmith is not one of them. She's laughably bad.

I scoured the Internet to find a "critique" on Smith's latest book. It didn't have to be harsh, just a standard analysis.

Nothing. Not even by James Wood who coined the category "hysterical realism"  after her book White Teeth in 20 - (which later became a grimy BBC series which gave up watching ) although Wood capitulated with Smith's 2012 NW http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/books-of-the-year

Here is what Wikipeda managed to say in one concise paragraph (which is as accurate as I can remember)

White Teeth consists of four self-contained short-stories, focusing on a major male character as he encounters a turning point in his life, with background cameos from other characters.[1] The series spans 20 years of three cultures, chronicling the interlinked stories of three families over three generations in a multicultural area of north-west London[2] from 1974 to 1992.[3]

And of course the focus of the film's derision (and I assume the novel's also) is a white male described as:


The four-hour saga also features leaps back to the Second World War, where Samad and Archie served together, and even further back to the 1857 Indian Mutiny.[4]

So much for modern - modernist - literary critiques. They settle, or perhaps they just have no principles.

It isn't much of a surprise that Wood has kept quiet on Swingtime because his initial horror has been justified.

After ept Swngtme around for about one wee readng parts of t gong through pages

rarely do ths and eep even "bad" boos that 've bought.


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