How Should a Person Be?
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From the internationally acclaimed author of The Middle Stories and Ticknor comes a bold interrogation into the possibility of a beautiful life. How Should a Person Be? is a novel of many identities: an autobiography of the mind, a postmodern self-help book, and a fictionalized portrait of the artist as a young woman — of two such artists, in fact.
For reasons multiple and mysterious, Sheila finds herself in a quandary of self-doubt, questioning how a person should be in the world. Inspired by her friend Margaux, a painter, and her seemingly untortured ability to live and create, Sheila casts Margaux as material, embarking on a series of recordings in which nothing is too personal, too ugly, or too banal to be turned into art. Along the way, Sheila confronts a cast of painters who are equally blocked in an age in which the blow job is the ultimate art form. She begins questioning her desire to be Important, her quest to be both a leader and a pupil, and her unwillingness to sacrifice herself.
Searching, uncompromising and yet mordantly funny, How Should a Person Be? is a brilliant portrait of art-making and friendship from the psychic underground of Canada's most fiercely original writer.
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Sheila ist Schriftstellerin in Toronto und schafft es nicht, das Theaterstück, an dem sie seit einiger Zeit schreibt, fertigzustellen. Sie verbringt Zeit mit ihrer Freudin Margaux, die Malerin ist, und anderen Künstlerfreunden, jobt in einem Friseursalon, besucht eine Freundin in New York und denkt über das Leben nach. So richtig viel passiert eigentlich nicht in diesem autofiktionalen Roman, aber trotzdem hat mir das Buch irgendwie gut gefallen, auch wenn ich manchmal dachte "Was lese ich hier gerade?" 😅 Nebenbei waren einigen Szenen ziemlich spicy, aber eher von der sprachlich derben Sorte.
Description
From the internationally acclaimed author of The Middle Stories and Ticknor comes a bold interrogation into the possibility of a beautiful life. How Should a Person Be? is a novel of many identities: an autobiography of the mind, a postmodern self-help book, and a fictionalized portrait of the artist as a young woman — of two such artists, in fact.
For reasons multiple and mysterious, Sheila finds herself in a quandary of self-doubt, questioning how a person should be in the world. Inspired by her friend Margaux, a painter, and her seemingly untortured ability to live and create, Sheila casts Margaux as material, embarking on a series of recordings in which nothing is too personal, too ugly, or too banal to be turned into art. Along the way, Sheila confronts a cast of painters who are equally blocked in an age in which the blow job is the ultimate art form. She begins questioning her desire to be Important, her quest to be both a leader and a pupil, and her unwillingness to sacrifice herself.
Searching, uncompromising and yet mordantly funny, How Should a Person Be? is a brilliant portrait of art-making and friendship from the psychic underground of Canada's most fiercely original writer.
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Sheila ist Schriftstellerin in Toronto und schafft es nicht, das Theaterstück, an dem sie seit einiger Zeit schreibt, fertigzustellen. Sie verbringt Zeit mit ihrer Freudin Margaux, die Malerin ist, und anderen Künstlerfreunden, jobt in einem Friseursalon, besucht eine Freundin in New York und denkt über das Leben nach. So richtig viel passiert eigentlich nicht in diesem autofiktionalen Roman, aber trotzdem hat mir das Buch irgendwie gut gefallen, auch wenn ich manchmal dachte "Was lese ich hier gerade?" 😅 Nebenbei waren einigen Szenen ziemlich spicy, aber eher von der sprachlich derben Sorte.