How Zadie Smith Lost Her Teeth.

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  • Author(s): Chu, Andrea Long
  • Source:
    New York. 9/11/2023, Vol. 56 Issue 19, p69-73. 5p.
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    • Subject Terms:
      SMITH, Zadie, 1975-; TEETH; ENGLISH fiction; SELF; SYNTHETIC cathinone; REALIST fiction; SYMPATHY
    • Abstract:
      Perhaps it really isBogle's, as sensitively dictated to Eliza:I was admiring the forest--gold andrusset, as I recall Or perhaps we arereading from Eliza's novel about Bogle,also called The Fraud, in which case thatgold and russet forest may be her detail,a sympathetic embellishment not unlikeMr. For Wood, a passionatedefender of the realist novel, this meantthat White Teeth lacked "moral seriousness."In response, Smith conceded thathysterical realism was "a painfully accurateterm for the sort of overblown, manicprose to be found in novels like myown." Smith imagines Eliza as a thwartedintellectual--every Zadie Smith book musthave at least one--but the subtle, liberal-mindedhousekeeper still loves her cousinenough to withhold her dismal view ofhis turgid historical novels. [Extracted from the article]
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