Pure Colour
von Sheila Heti
Winner of the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award in FictionShortlisted for the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize in FictionNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture, The Times Literary Supplement, and morePure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and terrible) things about being alive. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.Here we are, just living in the first draft of Creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart.In this first draft of the world, 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 his spirit passes into her. Together, they become a leaf on a tree. But photosynthesis gets boring, and being alive is a problem that cannot be solved, even by a leaf. Eventually, Mira must remember the human world she’s left behind, including Annie, and choose whether or not to return.
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Pure Colour
von Sheila Heti
Winner of the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award in FictionShortlisted for the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize in FictionNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture, The Times Literary Supplement, and morePure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and terrible) things about being alive. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.Here we are, just living in the first draft of Creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart.In this first draft of the world, 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 his spirit passes into her. Together, they become a leaf on a tree. But photosynthesis gets boring, and being alive is a problem that cannot be solved, even by a leaf. Eventually, Mira must remember the human world she’s left behind, including Annie, and choose whether or not to return.
Aktuelle Rezensionen(2)
Rezension von George Patrick HaneThis is a <b>painting of a child</b>, and we're here trying to criticize it. <i>Actually, people can't be a fish or a bear or a bird, and you definitely can't be green and live inside a leaf!!! The philosophical thoughts presented in the book do not seem to have been thought through to the end. Furthermore, contemporary literature should be more…</i> Bla bla bla. We have to turn off the analytical and rational critic in the back of our mind for a minute (or even longer). Because if you try to approach this painting from this angle, you're missing the point. You're missing the true beauty, subtle boldness, and honesty that this pure, undisguised child gives to you. This book really feels like a precious gift, a well-kept secret, a lovely bedtime story a warm mother reads to her child. Something you once felt inside yourself and you never heard someone else express it in that naive clarity. This painting is flat like a leaf, it always stays at the surface, without being superficial, and its fine surface structure makes it so special. Every word is so carefully selected and carefree at the same time. She touches you with them, opens you up, and plants a seed into you. A seed of transformation. And if Sheila Heti accomplishes so much with so few words, then what more do you want from art? So, can you give a painting of a child 5 stars? Actually, I don't care. This book did something to me; I resonated and connected with this book on a deeper, intimate level. And I can't wait to reread it again.
Rezension von suna„‚Pure Colour“ by Sheila Heti is described as a contemporary bible, in which the earth as it is now is described as god’s first draft of creation. The book that evolves around the story of Mira dealing with her father’s death contains parts about love, grief, and art, the overlapping of souls, and the creation of the world. Although I was really excited to read about those topics, I have to say that I was somewhat disappointed. The narrative is quite experimental, which I was first excited about, but unfortunately for me, the realistic and surreal parts didn’t really work together. The storyline felt like it was being made up while the book was written, the characters lacked depth and I couldn’t really get into the story. Heti’s way of overusing metaphors was also making it hard to get to the real content of the plot. The chapters were really short and had a lot of changing subjects, thus the entirety of the reading experience felt like I was reading a synopsis and still waiting for the real novel to start. I feel like if someone is looking for a rather easy read, a kind of self-help book, „pure colour“ could be a good fit, also as so many people highly recommend it, but it just wasn’t really my thing unfortunately.