![]() Though, intellectual talks between the professors, morally corrupt mentalities and disrespect toward nuptial bonds color the title of the novel pretty ironic in my view. With the development of the story, we find the emphasis on male and female concepts of beauty, ideas of physical and mental attractions and what we consider beautiful in humane actions of importance: intellectualism versus certification, conjugal vows versus extra-marital affairs, love verses sex. ![]() I sensed that the book shows a constant interrogation of what we call beautiful in human psyche, culture and physique. The title highlights that the storyline would suggest some epistemological idea on beauty from objective and subjective point of views and it does through different characters. The novel is inspired by the author’s autobiographical essence as Smith wrote the story from her own experience as a visiting fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute. From an epistemological view, the novel shows concepts of morality, racism, apartheid, human psychology, constant construction and destruction of relationships and professional jealousy. ![]() Smith plans herself for an impressive work of fiction that bargains a style flexible enough to place divergent principles in one single podium between the families, the Belseys and the Kipps in an American university town. The campus novel, On Beauty (2005)by Zadie Smith, is marked as a clever reflection of E.M.Forster’s Howards End (1910). ![]() ![]() Campus Novel Book Review: Zadie Smith’s On Beauty (2005) ![]()
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