Ali Smith reads a 'breathtaking, breathgiving' look at an argument
between an elderly father and his writer daughter
In the original version of this podcast, Ali Smith's reading was cut short. The version below has been corrected with the full-length reading [ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة] An old man and his daughter are having what is obviously
a run-of-the-mill, long-running disagreement. This time it's about
the kinds of story the daughter writes. The old man likes a story to take
the shape he knows, the classic shape. This is not the way
his daughter writes, and it annoys him. His annoyance, in turn,
makes her mischievous. He challenges her to tell him a story right now,
one shaped like stories should be shaped, with the right kinds of characters,
the right kinds of plot. The daughter tries. What happens –
funny, sad, infuriating – is that the force of story
won't be corralled any more than life itself will.
Story here is a matter of life and death; the father is old, ill and dying;
they both know it, and so does the reader. But this breathtaking,
breathgiving short story, which never compromises on this truth or
the admittance of inevitable tragedy, is profoundly, comically generous
in its open-endedness, and leaves you both shaken and renewed
by the heart, the fight and the life in it.
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة] [ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط] [ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة]
موضوع: A Conversation With My Father by Grace Paley 
