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How Sheila Heti Conjured Beauty by Remixing Her Most Personal Writing in ‘Alphabetical Diaries’
Through her acclaimed novels, Sheila Heti has blended the autobiographical and the fictitious in the pursuit of truth.
Through her acclaimed novels “How Should a Person Be?,” “Motherhood” and “Pure Colour,” Sheila Heti has blended the autobiographical and the fictitious in the pursuit of truth. So I thought, “Maybe if I have this way of looking through them alphabetically, I can get an overview of what that time was like, the themes and repetitions.” So it was the impulse to ground myself in what had actually happened, and curious as to how that would read. It’s not that the thoughts are different, or the preoccupations are different, but as a human grows, ideally you don’t change, but you have strategies for dealing with who you are that you didn’t when you were younger.
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