Our humanity is expressed in the way our thoughts change, are always breaking and are never still. “Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.”Īnd she is right to do so, for this chaos is found in our minds and it is what makes us human and alive. In her essay “Modern Fiction”, she states:
This calls for the master of this sort of writing, Virginia Woolf herself. This stream-of-consciousness writing provides a window into the chaotic, ordinary mind, which is one of the most genuine representations of how people feel and the way they act. There are no quotation marks and what we can call chapters begin in mid-sentence, which then breaks into poetry at times. The book is divided into a Beginning, The Middle and The End and entails constant changes of character as well as a fractured perspective. Her approach can be called structuralist for she cycles through each character’s voice, taking one at a time, while both their thoughts and grammar wander so there is no need to worry about creating crystalline sentences. The novel’s structure can be explained easily, although it might be difficult to grasp at certain points. Smith wrote the book in a stream-of-consciousness style of writing.
Easing into Ali Smith’s writing style is a similar experience, which is even greater for all the patience it seeks out from the reader at first. You can see the big picture for you notice they unite at the bottom part of the window. They make their way slowly, curving as they please and you get confused and slightly frustrated for you don’t see where they are headed but then, all of a sudden, it starts making sense.
Firstly, you notice they move independently, without any rules. Reading The Accidental resembles the way raindrops are traced on a windowpane.
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