Sheila Heti est reconnue pour sa voix littéraire distinctive, qui explore la tapisserie complexe des relations humaines et des dilemmes existentiels. Ses œuvres se caractérisent par un ton introspectif et philosophique, invitant les lecteurs à des réflexions profondes sur les complexités de la vie. En tant que rédactrice en chef des entretiens, Heti s'est forgé une réputation pour ses dialogues longs et incisifs qui sondent l'essence de ses sujets. Son écriture est célébrée pour son originalité et sa capacité à susciter de profondes réponses émotionnelles et intellectuelles.
The book explores the intricate dynamics of a specific location, revealing its cultural significance and historical context. It delves into the lives of its inhabitants, showcasing their struggles, triumphs, and the unique traditions that shape their identity. Through vivid storytelling and rich detail, the narrative uncovers the impact of external forces on the community, highlighting themes of resilience and belonging. The author's insightful perspective invites readers to connect deeply with the place and its people.
Un homme, le narrateur, rencontre une jeune fille, Chloé. Ils s'aiment jusqu'au jour où elle part avec son meilleur ami à lui. Gros chagrin, puis il rencontre Rachel. Un sujet classique, mais Alain de Botton, 23 ans tout juste, a choisi d'émailler son roman d'une série de petits paragraphes où il fait ses commentaires au fur et à mesure
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From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time Magazine) and the New York Times Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring novel about whether to have children. In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with the candor, originality, and humor that have won Heti international acclaim and made How Should A Person Be? required reading for a generation. In her late thirties, when her friends are asking when they will become mothers, the narrator of Heti’s intimate and urgent novel considers whether she will do so at all. In a narrative spanning several years, casting among the influence of her peers, partner, and her duties to her forbearers, she struggles to make a wise and moral choice. After seeking guidance from philosophy, her body, mysticism, and chance, she discovers her answer much closer to home. Motherhood is a courageous, keenly felt, and starkly original novel that will surely spark lively conversations about womanhood, parenthood, and about how—and for whom—to live.
Heartbreaking, exciting, profound- a short epic that reimagines what the novel can do After God created the heavens and the earth, he stood back to contemplate creation, like a painter standing back from the canvas. This is the moment we are living in - the moment of God standing back. In this first draft of existence, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira's chest like a portal - to what, she doesn't know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and she enters that strange and dizzying dimension that true loss opens up. This is a book about the shape of a life, from beginning to end. It's about art, critics, and ageing. It's about the surrounding world - sky, trees, lakes, stars - and 'the world beyond this world', which can be glimpsed in rare moments when something shattering occurs. Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel- explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It's a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and its shape-shifting, mystical form allows us to take in the whole world in one glance. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013 Sheila's twenties were going to plan. She got married. She hosted parties. A theatre asked her to write a play. Then she realised that she didn't know how to write a play. That her favourite part of the party was cleaning up after the party. And that her marriage made her feel like she was banging into a brick wall. So Sheila abandons her marriage and her play, befriends Margaux, a free and untortured painter, and begins sleeping with the dominating Israel, who's a genius at sex but not at art. She throws herself into recording them and everyone around her, investigating how they live, desperate to know, as she wanders, How Should a Person Be? Using transcripts, real emails, plus heavy doses of fiction, Heti crafts an exciting, courageous, and mordantly funny tour through one woman's heart and mind.
The story follows George Ticknor, an aging bachelor burdened by guilt and insecurity, as he reluctantly heads to a dinner party hosted by his successful childhood friend, Prescott. With a pie in hand, Ticknor grapples with his feelings of resentment and the complexities of their one-sided friendship. Drawing inspiration from the real-life relationship between historian William Hickling Prescott and his biographer, the narrative offers a witty and fantastical exploration of the dynamics between the two men.
