![]() Mira – a bird – falls for Annie, a cool and distant fish. Think of your favourite writers and artists, divisive critics, and try to categorise them by Heti’s animal key. There are birds (captivated by beauty and aesthetics), fish (who feel fiercely responsible for the collective and justice), and bears (who do not care for the abstract or ethics, but what is immediate). ![]() In this world, humans are categorised as three of these kinds of critics, as animals. Building on the creation myth concept, God is “hoping to get it more right this time,” Heti writes, and “God appears, splits, and manifests as three critics in the sky”. Human beings’ complaints and tribulations are logged as feedback for the next iteration of the universe. The concept of a divine power is elastic and malleable in the acclaimed Canadian writer’s hands, with which she takes to rewriting the creation of the universe in her latest novel, Pure Colour.Īn impending apocalypse is made meditative and sweet with Heti’s prose – the narrator Mira, studying to be an art critic, along with the rest of humanity is living in the “first draft of existence” by God. ![]() Instead she thinks of ‘God’ as a cavernous, open word. ![]() As someone who grew up “almost aggressively” atheist, God is not as tangible as a tree, or her brother, or her grinning rottweiler Feldman, who hulks into view on our Zoom call to settle himself in front of a stacked bookcase at her feet. ![]()
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