Sheila Heti je známá svým jedinečným přístupem k psaní, který často zkoumá složitosti lidských vztahů a existenciální otázky. Její díla se vyznačují introspektivním a filozofickým tónem, který čtenáře vtáhne do hlubokých úvah o životě. Jako editorka rozhovorů se Heti proslavila svými dlouhými, pronikavými rozhovory, které odhalují podstatu jejích respondentů. Její psaní je ceněno pro svou originalitu a schopnost vyvolat silné emoce a myšlenky.
Kolik otázek si žena položí v souvislosti s mateřstvím? První: Být, či nebýt matkou? Druhá: Kdy být matkou? Třetí: Stanu-li se matkou, budu nadále také ženou? Svobodnou ženou? Sheila Heti psala knihu několik let před čtyřicítkou, závěr dokončila už po překročení magické věkové hranice. Popisuje, jak je žena s postupujícím věkem odsouvána do kouta mateřství a jak je nahlížena jako bezdětná. Dotýká se otázky věčné rivality mezi ženami, zkoumá bezdětný partnerský vztah, obhlíží terén mateřství u jiných a zatíná hluboko do čtenáře prosté pravdy o společnosti věčně soudící a příliš jednoduše odsuzující.
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.
Rower's fiction is a devious transcription of life as it morphs into stories that turn into still more stories, palimpsets inscribed in a true confessional a transfiction. Elizabeth Alright, I want to know something and I want the straight dope. Were you ever in the sack with this guy? Ann With [Timothy] Leary? Willem Oh, here it is... " Ann and I ambled up to the bedroom." [laughter] Ann Ah, he was a liar. He's so dishonest. I mean, he was a classic paranoid... but like most paranoids he turned out to be right... Ann Rower writes like Dorothy Parker as if she'd taken acid to come down from speed. Funny, sad and smart, Rower's fiction is a devious transcription of life as it morphs into stories that turn into still more stories, palimpsets inscribed in a true confessional a transfiction. If You're A Girl , published in 1990, includes Rower's story about Timothy Leary's Millbrook days, which formed the basis of The Wooster Group's acclaimed play LSD... Just The High Points. Perhaps the most distinguished American writer ever to have babysat for Timothy Leary.
„Lekce z lásky“ zaujmou patrně každého, kdo si prožil nějaký vztah. Krok po kroku se tu totiž mapuje jeden milostný příběh, od počátečního rozechvění, vzrušení a naplnění až po první trhlinky, rozčarování, rozchod a utrpení. To vše takřka každý z nás prožil a zklamání z toho, že naše pocity věru nejsou jedinečné, bohatě vyváží poznání, že v milostných průšvizích nelítáme sami. De Botton přesně vystihuje a rozebírá pocity a stavy, které jsme zažívali, ale možná jim tak úplně nerozuměli; mimo jiné je tu kapitola o nelehkém rozhodování, kdy a jak říci „Miluji tě“, a další o nástrahách vnucování vlastních estetických kriterií (aneb jak své milé taktně sdělit, že její boty jsou prostě příšerné).
Lekce z lásky jsou povedený experiment s románovou formou (napůl román, napůl esej), knížka citlivá a zároveň intelektuálně provokativní. Nějak takhle by možná vypadaly psychologické články v Cosmopolitanu, kdyby je psal René Descartes...
“I had to judge a story contest of 600+ anonymous stories and I read each one and without hesitation Jen George’s story was my favourite. I’m so happy this collection exists. I feel drunk with love for these stories. They’re so funny and weird and true.”—Sheila Heti“With a weird, beautiful energy, George explores the challenges of woman-being: singlehood, self-doubt, motherhood, the dismaying fact of aging, the (dis)ability to love. A modern-day Jane Bowles, George engages these mysteries in prose that is funny, charming, dark, and insightful.” —Deb Olin UnferthFive stories—several as long as novellas—introduce the world to Jen George, a writer whose furiously imaginative new voice calls to mind Donald Barthelme and Leonora Carrington no less than Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. In “Guidance/The Party,” an ethereal alcoholic “Guide” in robes and flowing hair appears to help a thirty-three-year-old woman prepare a party for her belated adulthood; “Take Care of Me Forever” tragically lambasts the medical profession as a ship of fools afloat in loneliness and narcissism; “Instruction” chronicles a season in an unconventional art school called The Warehouse, where students divide their time between orgies, art critiques, and burying dead racehorses. Combining slapstick, surrealism, erotica, and social criticism, Jen George’s sprawling creative energy belies the secret precision and unexpected tenderness of everything she writes.
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.
"Funny...odd, original, and nearly unclassifiable...unlike any novel I can think of."--David Haglund, The New York Times Book Review "Brutally honest and stylistically inventive, cerebral, and sexy."--San Francisco Chronicle Named a Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review,The New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Flavorpill, The New Republic, The New York Observer, The Huffington Post A raw, startling, genre-defying novel of friendship, sex, and love in the new millennium--a compulsive read that's like "spending a day with your new best friend" (Bookforum) By turns loved and reviled upon its U.S. publication, Sheila Heti's "breakthrough novel" (Chris Kraus, Los Angeles Review of Books) is an unabashedly honest and hilarious tour through the unknowable pieces of one woman's heart and mind. Part literary novel, part self-help manual, and part vivid exploration of the artistic and sexual impulse, How Should a Person Be? earned Heti comparisons to Henry Miller, Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy, and Flaubert, while shocking and exciting readers with its raw, urgent depiction of female friendship and of the shape of our lives now. Irreverent, brilliant, and completely original, Heti challenges, questions, frustrates, and entertains in equal measure. With urgency and candor she asks: What is the most noble way to love? What kind of person should you be?
