Motherhood - Hardcover

Heti, Sheila

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846558379 ISBN 13: 9781846558375

Verlag: Random House Uk, 2018

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Críticas:

"Earthy and philosophical and essential . . . Motherhood floats, as did Heti’s excellent novel How Should a Person Be?, somewhere between fiction and nonfiction. It reads like an inspired monologue . . . Heti’s semi-fiction, like that of writers like Ben Lerner, Rachel Cusk and Teju Cole, among others, is dismantling our notions of what a novel should be . . . She deals out her ideas in no-nonsense form, as if she were pulling espresso shots . . . This book is endlessly quotable, and a perfect review would be nothing but quotations. She makes a banquet of her objections to parenthood. If you are an underliner, as I am, your pen may go dry . . . Indeed, Heti always seems to be drawing from a paranormally deep well . . . Funny . . . Cannily employed." (Dwight Garner The New York Times)

"Sheila Heti’s book seems likely to become the defining literary work on the subject, perhaps most of all because as a novel, replete with ambiguity and contradiction, it refuses to define anything, and certainly not the childlessness that provides its subject or the motherhood that provides its title." (Lara Feigel Guardian)

"Motherhood confronts the philosophical questions raised by childbearing and womanhood... Heti continues the project of How Should a Person Be? in at least one way: by opening out seemingly individual experiences into a general inquiry about ways of being...as concerned with art as it is with mothering... Heti’s narrator wants to create - specifically, to create something that will honour the memory of her mother and grandmother... Motherhood both documents that desire and fulfils it." (Sally Rooney London Review of Books)

"My favorite books this year were Keith Gessen’s A Terrible Country and Sheila Heti’s Motherhood. Both books are brave and funny reckonings with impossible situations and both grapple with ethical questions in a human and transparent way... Heti dramatises a question lived by nearly every first-world person. At the same time, she demonstrates the contradictions between freedom and the tyranny of choice and how impossible it is for anyone to ever make the ‘right’ decision." (Chris Kraus The White Review Books of the Year)

"Heti thinks clearly and originally" (Adam Kirsch Times Literary Supplement, **Books of the Year**)

"Probing, psychologically unafraid, witty... With its mix of autofiction and philosophy, Motherhood is no manifesto but an essential ― and often exasperating ― exploration of uncertainty and of the art that can be created from it." (Catherine Taylor Financial Times)

"Motherhood is an amazing book and the perfect successor to How Should A Person Be?. If How Should A Person Be? is for your twenties then Motherhood is for your thirties when you have to make that decision. She’s a woman, so it’s about female experience, but really every person has to make that decision – whether they want to be a parent." (Chris Kraus AnOther Magazine)

"Motherhood is subtitled A Novel, though it's one in which the boundaries between fiction and memoir are porous and constantly shifting... Heti is experimenting with literary form even as she wrestles with the form her adult life should take" (Stephanie Merritt Guardian)

"Motherhood is a poetic, innovative book. It is groundbreaking in its fluidity, in its recognition of the unrecognizability of desire, and in its scrutiny of expectation... she introduces a critical, exhilarating freedom." (Rebecca Watson Spectator)

"Motherhood is a fiercely intelligent and probing read that delves deep into the fundamentals of procreating, motherhood and what it means to be a woman in today’s world... not only an important novel about a fundamental question that women ask of themselves but a pass to live more in their minds, in their imaginations, in those fertile spaces from which great works grow." (Sarah Gilmartin Irish Times)

Reseña del editor:

**A Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Irish Times, Refinery29, TLS and The White Review Book of the Year 2018**

A provocative novel about the desire and duty to procreate, from the author of the critically acclaimed How Should A Person Be?

Motherhood treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood – whether or not to have children – with the intelligence, wit and originality that have won Sheila Heti international acclaim.

Having reached an age when most of her peers are asking themselves when they will become mothers, Heti’s narrator considers, with the same urgency, whether she will do so at all. Over the course of several years, under the influence of her partner, body, family, friends, mysticism and chance, she struggles to make a moral and meaningful choice.

In a compellingly direct mode that straddles the forms of the novel and the essay, Motherhood raises radical and essential questions about womanhood, parenthood, and how – and for whom – to live.

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• Verlag: Random House Uk
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1846558379
• ISBN 13: 9781846558375
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304