Canada became a literary sensation in the United States with a new drawing heavily on his own life and philosophy. Here we talk about art, friendship and honesty female sex

Sheila Heti

novel, ' How should a person?

has led the States by storm. Nicknamed "HBO Girls book form," is a mash-up memory, fiction, self-help and philosophy.

The book, published this week, has divided critics. The

New Yorker the James Wood Heti applauded the "freedom of the complaint and I can not", but said that the book "terribly narcissistic." Margaret Atwood has described as a "diving seriously strange but fun in the quest for authenticity," as an artist and filmmaker Miranda July said that "nothing less than revolutionary in form, sexual, relational, and as a important literary work. "

How should a person? is structured as a literary version of reality TV. The narrator, Sheila, is a playwright, recently divorced, suffering from writer's block. In real life Heti recently divorced her husband of three years, and tried to write a piece for a feminist theater company - which became rather

How

person

Heti Located in Toronto home, the book is based on personal conversations with the author and his artist friends (Margaux character is the true friend Heti, painter Margaux Williamson), and its relationship to the analyst with Israel, a man who has sex with an intense and brutal.

But in the spirit of the 19th century bildungsroman, the book also raises questions such as: What it means to be an artist? What is ugly and beautiful? And how can we live a moral life?

Heti studied drama at the National Theatre School of Canada before attending the University of Toronto to study art history and philosophy. His collection of short stories

Media Stories , published in 2001, then came Ticknor

, a historical novel on a biographer of the 19th century.

collaborated with Misha Glouberman in a book "Philosophy Talk"
chairs where people

, the

New Yorker chosen as one of his best books of 2011.

Heti looked set for a successful career as a writer of "difficult" literary fiction. But
How should a person?

surprise was a turning point because they searched his own life. Writing fiction alone in a room, he felt isolated from the world and began recording conversations with friends, and give them life. "It seems so tired of making a false person and put them through the steps of a false story," he told a reporter in 2007.

Editors Many have turned down the script - did not receive a statement that U.S. two years after its publication in Canada. But

How should a person?

became a literary sensation.

Written from 2005 - when he was 28 Heti - until 2012, the book explores the disorder, self-awareness and doubts of young women who have been told that the world offers opportunities unprecedented, but work as unpaid interns living in furnished rooms and sordid men dating loser.
There are strong links with brilliant TV series Lena Dunham

Girls

(Dunham Heti has called one of his favorite authors). Its two heroines have masochistic sex that causes pain, but also self-revelation.

As Dunham, Heti faces criticism for being part of a privileged (white) elite North American, but his writing raises important questions about the role of young women in capitalist society delay, and celebrates the power of friendship women.

How should a person?

to ask their friends, read your e-mails. But you call it a work of art, not your diary? Part writing this book was "I can write a book in which I am the sole author?" Or rather, I am the sole author, but my vision is influenced by what I am in the world, and what we learn from others. The creative process is more public - I showed in Margaux and many of my friends along the way. I thought of open source software and wrote a book that had more of the "philosophy of open source" instead of, say, Microsoft, or even people who understand computers can not enter because it is very close. This is a test on the internet that inspired me first called "The Cathedral and the Bazaar." I did not want a cathedral, wanted the book to be a mess.

It is therefore more familiar?

its momentum as a writer is to make sentences as beautiful as possible, but it would not make sense at all in this book. It's like a show or a monologue, Sheila talking about you. It must feel like the spoken language. Some people might think I do not know how to write. [He laughs.] But it's silly that this type of language should be placed under the literary language. I spent a lot of time to capture the letting go of the way people really speak.

Do you worry about hurting real people by putting them in a book?

I would never write a book again this way. I understand why people write fiction today. Many complications can arise. Fiction is a way for writers to maintain their friendships and romances

For an autobiographical novel, there are very few of their parents. Can you tell us more?

My dad came to Canada in 1956 from Hungary as a child and my mother came in the 1970s when she married my father. Both are Jewish, and my Jewish heritage is in the book. I do not know what you know about Hungary, but they were so horrible during the Second World War. It's always a very, very anti-Semitic, so they tend to feel closer to the Jewish part of the Hungarian part, or which is contrary to both.

Grow

you say you always felt "very scared" of culture - and added: ". I think being a child of immigrants"

not allowed to view video clips as a kid. It was this kind of environment. And I was overwhelmed by pop culture. He was too strong, too. Before this book would never have thought to put a book in this field. I do not really know more about pop music I did 10 years ago. I live in a world of silence, with the exception of certain conversations and podcasts.

However, the TV series

The Hills transcribed a few episodes and I was like, "Oh, these characters talk like people really talk." It was like Beckett, so open and mysterious. In the first season did not mention anything -. There was no reservation of their conversation, it was just words, the relations

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