But for Thirlwell, Celine is more like the chair in the corner of a bedroom where, by some quirk of gravity, everything always ends up. Just because Celine mistrusts language, seeking instead “something which language was pointing to but which escaped it forever”? To read a Thirlwell novel is to be forced to stroke one’s chin. Like Celine, Heti’s protagonist, Mira, communes with what seem to be voices of the universe and falls in love with other women. Then Celine was green too.” Let that sink in.

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