![]() Life is one long bout of monotony, and then we die. How should a person be in order to create art, in order to create meaningful relationships with other people? It’s a book that seems well aware that the small gestures in pursuit of answers to the big questions of life are often mind-numbingly tedious. Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be? is interested in the small gestures that make up human attempts to answer the big questions of life. Sometimes, the market sells us a tepid philosophical novel by a fairly established writer hailed as the current/next big thing. Sometimes, philosophy offers a different way of approaching and thinking about these questions. ![]() Sometimes, art emerges out of this chaos and uncertainty. These answers multiply and proliferate, are argued over and defended within a particular ideology. Big questions on the nature of being, truth, beauty, and meaning tend to invite responses that are simultaneously banal and profound. ![]()
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