She’s steeped in memories of her mother and her mother’s curious fixation with this artist. The way he mourns for his mother is one of the most devastating expressions of grief I think I’ve ever read about.Į1: George writes about del Cossa’s loss as a way of processing her own grief about her mother’s death. He explains how he learns from his stonemason father and the death of his mother.
GradeSaver, 19 August 2019 Web.E1: What do you think of “ How to be Both” by Ali Smith?Į2: It’s bloody brilliant! It’s all about a 15th century painter, Francesco del Cossa, who imagines a family looking at his paintings.Į1: Hmm… I think you’ve got it wrong – it’s about an adolescent girl George who imagines the life of del Cossa for a school project after seeing his painting.Į2: No, it’s definitely about del Cossa writing about his development as an artist. Next Section How to Be Both Summary How To Cite in MLA Format Barbour, Polly. Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft.
She has also lectured extensively on the art and literature of the Renaissance. Many snippets of the author appear in the novel for example, Smith herself lives in Cambridge, also the home of the fictional George.
Francesco is having strange dreams that are causing her to consider the nature of her relationships with people during her life, particularly those who are not what they appear to be. George inherits this conviction, and after her mother's death becomes obsessed with the enigmatic Renaissance artist that they spent many hours looking at together. George once visited the frescoes with her mother, a paranoid woman who believed she was being monitored by the government. The book was published in two different versions, one which told George's story first, the other telling Francesco's.
The novel tells two stories simultaneously, and has two protagonists, who at first glance would seem to have absolutely nothing whatsoever in common George is a sixteen year old girl who lives in present-day Cambridge, and Francesco is an Italian Renaissance artist who has painted a series of frescoes in the Hall of Months at the Palazzo Schifanoia. Scottish novelist Ali Smith received a multitude of plaudits for her 2014 novel How to Be Both, with critical acclaim and a slew of awards and nominations, including the prestigious Man Booker Prize, for which she was nominated in 2014, and the Goldsmith's Prize, which she won in the same year. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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