Literature Returns to Dystopia to Alert Totalitarian ‘Sorpasso’

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Ali Smith has dedicated his latest books to unraveling Brexit's sledge, sliding under a microscope the boil of populisms, molding the puzzling of the pandemic and, in short, locking up the present almost in real time in his 'seasonal Quartet', a series of novels published between 2016 and 2020, so it was to be hoped that, a little while before he looked up to look beyond the horizon, the Scotch would end up with a dystopia.