Sheila Heti strips back the novel and makes it new
- Written by Jane Gleeson-White, Adjunct Lecturer, UNSW Canberra, UNSW Sydney
Image by rawpixel.comSheila Heti’s slender, folkloric novel Pure Colour contains multitudes. It’s a love story, a lament. And it’s a philosophical enquiry into rupture: radical alteration caused by the death of a father, and a dying iteration of life on earth.
She had thought that when someone died, it would be like they went into...





