![]() ![]() French literature abounds in novels that feature characters who feel out of place and out of context, who are burdened with the need to invent themselves and who feel discontinuous in their time and place of living. While writing NW she wanted to write about the same feelings portrayed in numerous 20 th century existential novels, but with a different cast. Smith is an author who has been build out of the books that she has read. She shows us that despite the fact that there have been numerous attempts to modernize London, it has still preserved its manifold layers of English life. ![]() Here we have a good example of the realignment of a city where the part you live in is perceived as central and most important. She has managed to fill the novel with subtle tones of the feeling you get when you have been in a place long enough for it to crawl under your skin. Her book NW, which was published in 2012, is a case in point. Zadie Smith has stated on various occasions that she considers herself to belong to the arena of obsessively local writers, inhabited by authors such as Hardy and Hornby. ![]()
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