![]() That he has been essentially forgotten is part of the intent here, the way we evaporate in time. ![]() ![]() “ear God dear Motherfather did I come the hard way back through the wall of the earth the stratifications the rocks and the soil the worms and the crusts the stars and the gods the vicissitudes and the histories the broke bits of forgettings and rememberings all the long road from gone to here,” he asks almost as soon as he returns to consciousness, in a museum in Cambridge, England, that houses one of his works. This mirrors the Del Cossa sections of “How to Be Both” (as well as, to some extent, the figure of Georgia’s mother), which the painter narrates from beyond the grave. Blending fact and fiction, Smith frames these lectures as something of an intellectual ghost story: The lecturer is dead. ![]() And yet “How to Be Both” - which was, like “Hotel World” and “The Accidental,” shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize - may have most in common with the author’s 2013 nonfiction book, “Artful,” which gathers four lectures on art and literature that turn the notion of the lecture on its head. ![]()
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