Best Selling Books by Siri Hustvedt

From the author of "The Enchantment of Lily Dahl" comes a powerful and heartbreaking novel that chronicles the epic story of two families, two sons, and two marriages.

"And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at the end of The Awful Truth? There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren''t there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if you ask me. A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment." Mia Fredrickson, the wry, vituperative, tragic comic, poet narrator of The Summer Without Men, has been forced to reexamine her own life. One day, out of the blue, after thirty years of marriage, Mia''s husband, a renowned neuroscientist, asks her for a "pause." This abrupt request sends her reeling and lands her in a psychiatric ward. The June following Mia''s release from the hospital, she returns to the prairie town of her childhood, where her mother lives in an old people''s home. Alone in a rented house, she rages and fumes and bemoans her sorry fate. Slowly, however, she is drawn into the lives of those around her—her mother and her close friends,"the Five Swans," and her young neighbor with two small children and a loud angry husband—and the adolescent girls in her poetry workshop whose scheming and petty cruelty carry a threat all their own. From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved comes Siri Hustvedt''s provocative, witty, and revelatory novel about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old question of sameness and difference between the sexes.

"Returning to New York from Minnesota, the grieving siblings continue to pursue the mystery behind the note. While Erik''s fascination with his new tenants and emotional vulnerability to his psychiatric patients threaten to overwhelm him, Inga is confronted by a hostile journalist who seems to know a secret connected to her dead husband, a famous novelist. As each new mystery unfolds, Erik begins to inhabit his emotionally hidden father''s history and to glimpse how his impoverished childhood, the Depression, and the war shaped his relationship with his children, while Inga must confront the reality of her husband''s double life."--BOOK JACKET.

Named one of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of the Year ** Publishers Weekly’s Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** Kirkus Reviews Best Literary Fiction Books of 2014 ** Washington Post Top 50 Fiction Books of 2014 ** Boston Globe’s Best Fiction of 2014 ** The Telegraph’s Best Fiction to Read 2014 ** St. Louis Post Dispatch’s Best Books of 2014 ** The Independent Fiction Books of the Year 2014 ** One of Buzzfeed’s Best Books Written by Women in 2014 ** San Francisco Chronicle’s Best of 2014 ** A Nancy Pearl Pick ** PopMatters.com’s Best of 2014 Fiction Winner of the 2014 LA Times Book Prize for Fiction Finalist for the 2014 Kirkus Prize Hailed by The Washington Post as “Siri Hustvedt’s best novel yet, an electrifying work,” The Blazing World is a masterful novel about perception, prejudice, desire, and one woman’s struggle to be seen. In a new novel called “searingly fresh... A Nabokovian cat’s cradle” on the cover of The New York Times Book Review, the internationally bestselling author tells the provocative story of artist Harriet Burden, who, after years of having her work ignored, ignites an explosive scandal in New York’s art world when she recruits three young men to present her creations as their own. Yet when the shows succeed and Burden steps forward for her triumphant reveal, she is betrayed by the third man, Rune. Many critics side with him, and Burden and Rune find themselves in a charged and dangerous game, one that ends in his bizarre death. An intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle presented as a collection of texts, including Harriet’s journals, assembled after her death, this “glorious mashup of storytelling and scholarship” (San Francisco Chronicle) unfolds from multiple perspectives as Harriet’s critics, fans, family, and others offer their own conflicting opinions of where the truth lies. Writing in Slate, Katie Roiphe declared it “a spectacularly good read...feminism in the tradition of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex or Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own: richly complex, densely psychological, dazzlingly nuanced.” “Astonishing, harrowing, and utterly, completely engrossing” (NPR), Hustvedt’s new novel is “Blazing indeed:...with agonizing compassion for all of wounded humanity”(Kirkus Reviews, starred review). It is a masterpiece that will be remembered for years to come.

A provocative, exuberant novel about time, memory, desire, and the imagination from the internationally bestselling and prizewinning author of The Blazing World. A young woman, S.H., moves to New York City in 1978 to look for adventure and write her first novel, but finds herself distracted by her mysterious neighbor, Lucy Brite. As S.H. listens to Lucy through the thin walls of her dilapidated building, she carefully transcribes the woman’s bizarre monologues about her daughter’s violent death and her need to punish the killer. Forty years later, S.H. stumbles upon the journal she kept that year and writes a memoir, Memories of the Future, in which she juxtaposes the notebook’s texts, drafts from her unfinished comic novel, and her commentaries on them to create a dialogue among selves over the decades. She remembers. She misremembers. She forgets. Events of the past take on new meanings. She works to reframe her traumatic memory of a sexual assault. She celebrates the legacy of the wild and rebellious Dada artist-poet, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. As the book unfolds, you witness S.H. write her way through vengeance and into freedom. Smart, funny, angry, and poignant, Hustvedt’s seventh novel brings together the themes that have made her one of the most celebrated novelists working today: the strangeness of time, the brutality of patriarchy, and the power of the imagination to remake the past.

From the author of The Blazing World, “a work of dizzying intensity…eloquent and vivid” (Don DeLillo), about a young Midwestern woman who finds herself entangled in intense circumstances—physical, cerebral, and existential—when she moves to New York City. Iris Vegan, a young, impoverished graduate student from the Midwest, finds herself entangled with four powerful but threatening characters as she tries to adjust to life in New York City. Mr. Morning, an inscrutable urban recluse, employs Iris to tape-record verbal descriptions of objects that belonged to a murder victim. George, a photographer, takes an eerie portrait of Iris, which then acquires a strong life of its own, appearing and disappearing without warning around the city. After a series of blinding migraines, Iris ends up in a hospital room with Mrs. O., a woman who has lost her mind and memory to a stroke, but who nevertheless retains both the strength and energy to torment her fellow patient. And finally, there is Professor Rose, Iris’s teacher and eventually her lover. While working with him on the translation of a German novella called The Brutal Boy, she discovers in its protagonist, Klaus, a vehicle for her own transformation and ventures out into the city again—this time dressed as a man.

The internationally acclaimed novelist Siri Hustvedt has also produced a growing body of nonfiction. She has published a book of essays on painting (Mysteries of the Rectangle) as well as an interdisciplinary investigation of a neurological disorder (The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves). She has given lectures on artists and theories of art at the Prado, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 2011, she delivered the thirty-ninth annual Freud Lecture in Vienna. Living, Thinking, Looking brings together thirty-two essays written between 2006 and 2011, in which the author culls insights from philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, psychoanalysis, and literature. The book is divided into three sections: the essays in Living draw directly from Hustvedt''s life; those in Thinking explore memory, emotion, and the imagination; and the pieces in Looking are about visual art. And yet, the same questions recur throughout the collection. How do we see, remember, and feel? How do we interact with other people? What does it mean to sleep, dream, and speak? What is "the self"? Hustvedt''s unique synthesis of knowledge from many fields reinvigorates the much-needed dialogue between the humanities and the sciences as it deepens our understanding of an age-old riddle: What does it mean to be human?

From the author of the international bestseller What I Loved, a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and writers. Whether her subject is growing up in Minnesota, cross-dressing, or the novel, Hustvedt''s nonfiction, like her fiction, defies easy categorization, elegantly combining intellect, emotion, wit, and passion. With a light touch and consummate clarity, she undresses the cultural prejudices that veil both literature and life and explores the multiple personalities that inevitably inhabit a writer''s mind. Is it possible for a woman in the twentieth century to endorse the corset, and at the same time approach with authority what it is like to be a man? Hustvedt does. Writing with rigorous honesty about her own divided self, and how this has shaped her as a writer, she also approaches the works of others--Fitzgerald, Dickens, and Henry James--with revelatory insight, and a practitioner''s understanding of their art.

A compelling, radical, “richly explored” (The New York Times Book Review), and “insightful” (Vanity Fair) collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prize-winning novelist Siri Hustvedt, the acclaimed author of The Blazing World and What I Loved. In a trilogy of works brought together in a single volume, Siri Hustvedt demonstrates the striking range and depth of her knowledge in both the humanities and the sciences. Armed with passionate curiosity, a sense of humor, and insights from many disciplines she repeatedly upends received ideas and cultural truisms. “A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women” (which provided the title of this book) examines particular artworks but also human perception itself, including the biases that influence how we judge art, literature, and the world. Picasso, de Kooning, Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Susan Sontag, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Karl Ove Knausgaard all come under Hustvedt’s intense scrutiny. “The Delusions of Certainty” exposes how the age-old, unresolved mind-body problem has shaped and often distorted and confused contemporary thought in neuroscience, psychiatry, genetics, artificial intelligence, and evolutionary psychology. “What Are We? Lectures on the Human Condition” includes a powerful reading of Kierkegaard, a trenchant analysis of suicide, and penetrating reflections on the mysteries of hysteria, synesthesia, memory and space, and the philosophical dilemmas of fiction. A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women is an “erudite” (Booklist), “wide-ranging, irreverent, and absorbing meditation on thinking, knowing, and being” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

In a small Minnesota town, a tale of love and intrigue whose protagonist is Lily Dahl, a young actress. The cafe where she works is a meeting place for eccentrics and a New York artist who has come to paint them, with whom Lily has an affair. But one customer is a murderer and Lily turns sleuth.

The author delves into the mysteries of her own neurological condition in a far-ranging memoir that is “graceful, intense, and curiously affirming” (Booklist). While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, novelist Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Despite her flapping arms and shaking legs, she continued to speak clearly and was able to finish her speech. It was as if she had suddenly become two people: a calm orator and a shuddering wreck. Then the seizures happened again and again. The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves tracks Hustvedt’s search for a diagnosis, one that takes her inside the thought processes of several scientific disciplines, each one of which offers a distinct perspective on her paroxysms but no ready solution. In the process, she finds herself entangled in fundamental questions: What is the relationship between brain and mind? How do we remember? What is the self? In The Shaking Woman, Hustvedt synthesizes her experience and research into a compelling mystery: Who is the shaking woman? In the end, the story she tells becomes, in the words of George Makari, author of Revolution in Mind, “a brilliant illumination for us all.”

Meditaions on the complex relationship between art and the world.

“The Delusions of Certainty is a unique book by an extraordinary author. Siri Hustvedt is a notable novelist, art scholar, and a philosopher of science. In this memorable and immensely enjoyable volume, Hustvedt rises above the exhausted debate over the two cultures, to demonstrate not just the possibility but also the advantages of combining the approaches of the arts, humanities, and sciences to illuminate a key aspect of the human condition: the mind-body problem.” —Antonio Damasio, bestselling author of Descartes’ Error and Self Comes to Mind “Siri Hustvedt proves her membership in the highest rank of neuroscientists and philosophers who probe the nature of thought and the workings of consciousness. A novelist and a student of psychoanalysis and neuroscience, Hustvedt can ask questions others cannot ask about imagination, identity, epistemology, gendered power, and mortality. Her authoritative knowledge and her courage to challenge the status quo guide the reader to fresh epiphanies about what counts as human nature. The work is, in the end, a work of freedom.” —Rita Charon, Columbia University “The Delusions of Certainty is the best book on the mind-body problem I have ever read. Perhaps only a great novelist and essayist can address what neuroscientists and philosophers fail to question. Siri Hustvedt takes the reader on an inspiring journey into highly relevant and often unanswered questions about what it means to be human.” —Vittorio Gallese, University of Parma Prizewinning novelist, feminist, and scholar Siri Hustvedt turns her brilliant and critical eye toward the metaphysical issues of neuropsychology in this lauded, standalone volume. Originally published in her “canonical” (Publishers Weekly) and “absorbing” (Kirkus Reviews) collection A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women, The Delusions of Certainty exposes how the age-old, unresolved mind-body problem has shaped—and often distorted and confused—contemporary thought in neuroscience, psychiatry, genetics, artificial intelligence, and evolutionary psychology.

In this essay collection in which feminist philosophy meets family memoir, the novelist and scholar moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to connect mothers to the broader meanings of maternity in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority.

In this book, Hustvedt gives us nine essays on the significance of particular works of art, replete with original insights and a few startling discoveries. In her essay on Giorgione''s The Tempest, a painting that has mystified art critics for hundreds of years, the author reinterprets the canvas as a work about art and voyeurism. While looking at The Third of May, she was astonished to discover that Goya had hidden his own self-portrait in a shadowy corner of his iconic masterwork. More than anything, the essays in this book display a true passion for art, from the still lifes of Jean-Baptiste Chardin and Giorgio Morandi to the contemporary works of Joan Mitchell and Gerhard Richter. Hustvedt captures perfectly the pleasure found in giving oneself up to the complexities and ambiguities of painting, discovering new subtleties and surprises the longer one takes the time to look.--Back cover.

''A startling novel of ferocious psychological acumen, which, to my mind, deserves a large, international readership... very much a book for our times'' Siri Hustvedt, from the introduction ''A literary giant in Sweden, Dagerman conjures a Strindbergian atmosphere of shadowy menace in his brief, intense novel, A Moth to a Flame... This moody, death-haunted novel is well worth reading'' Evening Standard In 1940s Stockholm, a young man named Bengt falls into deep, private turmoil with the unexpected death of his mother. As he struggles to cope with her loss, his despair slowly transforms to rage when he discovers that his father had a mistress. Bengt swears revenge on behalf of his mother''s memory, but he soon finds himself drawn into a fevered and forbidden affair with the very woman he set out to destroy . . . Written in a taut, restrained style, A Moth to a Flame is an intense exploration of heartache and fury, desperation and illicit passion. Set against a backdrop of the moody streets of Stockholm and the Hitchcockian shadows in the woods and waters of Sweden''s remote islands, this is a psychological masterpiece by one of Sweden''s greatest writers. ''Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an emotion'' Graham Greene ''Dagerman can evoke such emotion in a single sentence'' Colm Tóibín ''There are some writers (Kafka and Lorca immediately spring to mind) who come to enjoy the status of saint; their lives and deaths constitute statements about existence and its proper priorities. A saint of this type is the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman'' Times Literary Supplement ''This searing tale of bereavement and loathing feels all too relevant today'' Guardian

A comprehensive look into the fascinating life and enduring legacy of Juan Muñoz and his enigmatic installations “Walking between these figures feels like an interruption; being a spectator is itself a performance. They seem to know more than we do, about the status of being an artwork and the place of the viewer. The joke, if there is one, is on us.” —The Guardian Muñoz’s revolutionary oeuvre evokes emotional narratives through sculpture, installation, drawing, writing, and sound. Situating viewers between his work and among one another, he creates an intimacy between art and its audience. Muñoz thought deeply about art history and, in particular, the tradition of Spanish painting. Before his untimely death at the age of forty-eight, he produced an extensive, powerfully evocative body of work that uniquely explores the narrative and philosophical possibilities of art. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, in 2022, this catalogue provides an expansive overview of Muñoz’s career from the 1980s onward. In an accompanying text, the art historian and curator Guillaume Kientz contextualizes Muñoz’s influences within the art-historical canon. The acclaimed writer Siri Hustvedt contributes a thoughtful response to the artist’s iconic Conversation Piece. In an imagined interview between Muñoz and himself, Maurizio Cattelan further propels the artist’s momentum and potential in the time before his death. Also featured is a never-before-published interview between Muñoz and the art historian Michael Brenson that took place in 2000.

La nova novel·la de Siri Hustvedt després de vuit anys. Una obra brillant, un relat feminista provocador, intrigant i molt enginyós. Siri Hustvedt es posa en la pell d''una escriptora ja gran que, esperonada per la trobada d''un quadern de notes antic, evoca els records del seu primer any a Nova York, el 1978, quan acabada d''arribar de Minnesota, sola i sense ni cinc, descobreix les múltiples possibilitats que li ofereix la ciutat. A més, les converses misterioses d''una veïna, la Lucy Brite, que la jove sent a través de la fina paret de l''apartament, l''intriguen. I com que cada cop són confessions més íntimes i sinistres s''obsedeix a descobrir la veritat de la dona que viu a la porta del costat. Construïda a partir de la reelaboració en el present del temps passat, Records del futur crea un diàleg entre dècades i s''expandeix en múltiples relats. A més de la misteriosa vida de la veïna, assistim sobretot al retrat d''una jove que troba el seu camí com a dona i com a escriptora, inscrita en un ambient elèctric, el Nova York de finals dels anys 70. Amb la col·laboració de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament de Cultura.

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La Harriet Burden va ser una figura enigmàtica de l’art novaiorquès dels vuitanta i ara, al cap d’uns anys de la seva mort, és objecte d’una investigació acadèmica. Una indagació detectivesca, perquè la personalitat de la Harriet és polièdrica i desconcertant. Esposa del marxant Felix Lord, mare de dos fills, amfitriona del més granat del món cultural i mecenes, la Harriet va ser, sobretot, una artista ignorada per la seva condició de dona en un entorn marcat per un masclisme latent. I, per denunciar-ho, va posar en marxa un experiment transgressor amb l’exposició de la seva obra a través de tres homes que li serviran de màscara: l’Anton Tish, en Phineas Q. Eldridge i en Rune. Però en aquest joc arriscat els egos, els anhels i les pulsions sexuals desencadenaran unes tempestes incontrolables i desembocaran en una mort ritual i pertorbadora. El resultat és un exercici brillantíssim, una narració polifònica que, a partir dels diaris de la Harriet, testimonis i crítiques i articles de l’època, reconstrueix la personalitat i la proposta estètica d’aquesta dona, el seu joc de falses identitats per descobrir les mesquineses dels qui mouen els fils del mercat de l’art. Siri Hustvedt ens regala una novel•la prodigiosa sobre el paper de la dona com a creadora, però també una reflexió sagaç sobre la identitat, l’ambició, el desig i l’engany. «Una d’aquestes novel•les en què un autor consagrat resumeix triomfalment la seva trajectòria i potser fins i tot supera el que ha fet abans» (James Walton, The Spectator). «Construïda com un d’aquells mecanismes narratius nabokovians... L’heroïna és com els herois de Philip Roth o de Saul Bellow» (Fernanda Eberstadt, The New York Review of Books). «Plena d’emocions i de saviesa» (Arifa Akbar, The Independent).

Dos mujeres, una ciudad, un misterio: una historia entre la realidad y la ficción, entre el thriller psicológico y la novela de formación. Una escritora consagrada que trabaja en sus memorias redescubre los viejos diarios de su primer año en Nueva York, a finales de la década de 1970. Recién salida de un pueblo de Minnesota, sin apenas dinero y con hambre de nuevas experiencias, se deslumbra por todo lo que le ofrece la ciudad: su primer amor, los esbozos de su primera novela, la escena literaria que se abre ante ella, y, sobre todo, la obsesión por su vecina, una mujer joven que cada noche entona extraños monólogos en su apartamento y que la protagonista anota febrilmente en sus cuadernos. Conforme estas confesiones se vuelven más perturbadoras, su interés por descubrir la verdad detrás de la puerta de al lado también se intensifica. Cuarenta años después de aquello, esas notas y diarios sirven a la escritora para reflexionar sobre temas como el paso del tiempo, el deseo o el papel de la mujer en la sociedad, y para constatar que son los recuerdos del pasado los que en gran medida conforman quienes seremos en el futuro. Entre la metaliteratura y el feminismo, entre el thriller psicológico y el bildungsroman, Siri Hustvedt vuelve a cuestionar nuestras relaciones con la realidad, la capacidad del arte para cambiar nuestra percepción del mundo, los límites de la ficción y los enigmas de la personalidad y la memoria.

Eine junge Frau bezieht ein winziges Zimmerchen im heruntergekommenen Morningside Heights. Das Jahr ist 1979, und S.H. kommt direkt aus der amerikanischen Provinz; daher ihr Spitzname: "Minnesota". Das wilde New York lockt, und sie, die Schriftstellerin werden will, genießt den Schmutz wie den Glanz, das turbulente Leben wie die Einsamkeit. Alles Neue saugt sie begierig in sich auf. So auch, durch die papierdünnen Wände zur Nachbarwohnung, die oft skurrilen Monologe und gesungenen Mantras ihrer Nachbarin: Lucy Brite, liest sie auf dem Klingelschild. Doch mit der Zeit wünscht sie, sie hätte nicht so genau hingehört. Immer dringlicher werden Lucys Gesänge, immer klagender. Von Misshandlung ist die Rede, von Gefangenschaft, von Kindstod, ja von Mord. Nach und nach wird die Nachbarin zu einer immer schrecklicheren Obsession. Bis eines Nachts ein dramatisches Ereignis in Minnesotas Wohnung Lucy Brite in Person auf den Plan ruft - und nun beginnt ein Geheimnis sich zu lüften... Vierzig Jahre später erzählt die gealterte S.H., inzwischen eine anerkannte Schriftstellerin und Wissenschaftlerin, was davor und danach geschah: erzählt von Frauensolidarität und Männerwahn, von Liebe und Geschlechterkampf, von Gewalt und Versöhnung. Erzählt aber auch vom Mysterium der Zeit, von Erinnerung und Phantasie, von der Art und Weise, wie alles im Leben zu Geschichten wird, erzählt vom Erzählen. Und das mit einer unbändigen Lust daran, die uns wünschen lässt, das Buch wäre nie zu Ende.

«La mujer que mira a los hombres que miran a las mujeres». Así define Siri Hustvedt esta ambiciosa reunión de sus mejores ensayos, escritos entre 2011 y 2015. Su vasto conocimiento en un amplio abanico de disciplinas como el arte, la literatura, la neurociencia o el psicoanálisis ilumina una teoría central en su obra ensayística, la de que la percepción está influenciada por nuestros prejuicios cognitivos implícitos, aquellos que no provienen del entorno, sino que se han interiorizado como una realidad psicofisiológica. Una apasionante y radical colección de ensayos sobre el feminismo de la galardonada escritora Siri Hustvedt.

Després de l''èxit de la seva anterior novel·la, finalista del Premi Llibreter, ens arriba l''esplèndida Elegia per un americà, de l''escriptora nord-americana Siri Hustvedt. Reprenent l''angoixa soterrada de les seves obres anteriors, l''autora explora els secrets que marquen les vides d''Erik Davidsen i la seva germana Inga. Tot just després de la mort del seu pare, a través dels diaris que va escriure, els dos germans van descobrint històries que ell havia mantingut amagades en vida. Alhora, ambdós s''embranquen en processos personals dins les seves pròpies vides: Inga descobreix les infidelitats del seu marit mort i Erik s''enamora perdudament de la seva nova veïna, una noia amb una filla de cinc anys que amaga, ella també, un secret terrible que posarà en perill la vida de tots tres.

PREMIO PRINCESA DE ASTURIAS DE LAS LETRASEl libro más personal de Siri Hustvedt, unas memorias únicas con las que la autora intenta conocer el misterio detrás de su propia enfermedad. En 2006, mientras hablaba en público en un homenaje dedicado a su padre, Siri Hustvedt comenzó a temblar descontroladamente de la cabeza a los pies. «Mis brazos se agitaban de forma desmedida. Mis rodillas chocaban una contra otra. Temblaba como si fuera presa de un ataque epiléptico. Lo increíble era que no me afectaba la voz en absoluto. Hablaba como si siguiera impertérrita», escribió. Era como si de repente se hubiera convertido en dos personas y no fuera capaz de reconocerse en esa parte de ella que parecía enferma. Cautivada por aquel episodio, decidió ir a la búsqueda de la mujer temblorosa. En estas memorias, Siri Hustvedt trata de encontrar un diagnóstico que resuelva aquella misteriosa transformación. Ahondando en la historia de la medicina y en su propia biografía, y profundizando en disciplinas como la neurología, la psiquiatría y el psicoanálisis, firma un libro único en el que, en la tradición de autores como Oliver Sacks, la ciencia y la literatura caminan de la mano con el objetivo de iluminar aquello que no conocemos de nosotros mismos. « La mujer temblorosa es producto de una lectora voraz y de un pensamiento profundo, y es imposible no apreciar la lucidez en cada frase» (The Observer). «Un libro inteligente, culto y apasionante» (ABC). «Un audaz experimento que resultará útil a muchos» (Marie Claire).

Per primera vegada en català, l''assaig més personal de Siri Hustvedt. Mentre parlava en un homenatge dedicat al seu pare, mort dos anys abans, Siri Hustvedt va començar a tremolar. Va poder acabar el discurs, tot i que els braços i els peus es movien sense que els pogués controlar. Els atacs es van repetir. Aquesta és una crònica lúcida de la recerca d''un diagnòstic, que va portar l''autora a endinsar-se en el món de la psiquiatria, la neurologia i la psicoanàlisi, i a donar classes en tallers literaris per a interns d''hospitals psiquiàtrics. Un llibre que es nodreix de les vivències, les memòries, les investigacions i els interessos intel·lectuals d''una novel·lista excepcional.

Konstnärinnan Harriet Burden känner uppgivenhet inför att ständigt förbises av New Yorks konstnärselit. Då bestämmer hon sig för att genomföra ett experiment: hon döljer sin identitet bakom tre påhittade manliga konstnärsalias. Men när hon till sist träder fram får hon inte den reaktion hon förväntat sig. Siri Hustvedts nya roman kan beskrivas som en intellektuell deckare i konstvärlden. I centrum står en avliden, sedan länge bortglömd konstnärinna, vars verk plötsligt uppmärksammas på nytt - inte minst tack vare hennes unika synsätt på identitet, kön, femininitet, konstnärlig makt. Jakten på henne går via anteckningar, dagböcker, artiklar, spridda minnesbilder av barn, älskare, vänner. Fram träder en kvinna som under sitt liv bar flera motstridiga masker och vars psykologiska dubbelspel också fick tragiska konsekvenser.

Si ets una poetessa sense gaire èxit i has passat la ratlla dels cinquanta, t''agafa un atac de nervis i et tanquen en un manicomi. I, quan et deixen anar, te''n vas al poble de la mare, i passes un estiu amb les seves amigues de la residència, i imparteixes un curs de poesia a un grup de petites bruixes adolescents. I et poses a mantenir correspondència amb un boig que t''envia missatges anònims... Plantejada en clau de comèdia sempre amb un peu en la tragèdia, L''estiu sense homes és una intel·ligent novel·la sobre la guerra dels sexes, la solitud, l''amor, la utilitat de la poesia i la possibilitat de canviar.

Nächtliche Blicke in ein erleuchtetes Fenster: Ein halbnackter, muskulöser Mann malt selbstvergessen und schweißgebadet an einem Ölbild. Die junge Lily Dahl, die ihn aus ihrem Fenster jenseits der Straße beobachtet, ist fasziniert. Abend für Abend schaut sie ihm zu, und eines Nachts schaltet sie ihr eigenes Licht an und zieht sich für ihn aus ... Mit großem erzählerischem Raffinement inszeniert Siri Hustvedt ein Verwirrspiel von Fiktion und Wirklichkeit, von Albtraum und Wahn, in dem die wagemutige Lily zum Opfer männlicher Fetischphantasien wird. «Die Verzauberung der Lily Dahl» ist ein erotischer Psychothriller, ein Roman über die Abgründe der menschlichen Sexualität und über die seltsame, verstörende Macht der Kunst. «Ein seltsamer Zauber liegt über diesem Buch.» «Die Zeit»

Die New Yorker Dichterin Mia und der Neurowissenschaftler Boris haben eine Ehekrise. Boris möchte eine «Pause». Mia stellt fest, dass die Pause viel jünger als sie und überdies Boris'' Laborassistentin ist. Nach einer klinischen Depression braucht sie eine Pause, fährt allein in ihre Geburtsstadt in Minnesota und verbringt den Sommer in der Nähe ihrer Mutter, die, mit neunzig noch ziemlich munter, im Heim lebt. Ansonsten brütet Mia über den untreuen Boris und die Männer im Allgemeinen. Mit Wut im Bauch und dem Herzen auf der Zunge notiert sie zum Thema Liebe, Ehe und Sex, was ihr einfällt. Und das ist, neben Gedichten und einem erotischen Tagebuch, eine Menge! Die Kur schlägt an, und siehe da, langsam entdeckt sie sich und das Leben neu. Was für ein Genuss, was für eine Befreiung! Selbst Boris merkt das in der Ferne und schickt zerknirschte Mails. Siri Hustvedts neuer Roman ist ein hinreißendes, blitzgescheites Buch über das Leben von Frauen heute. Von der Geburt über den Sexus bis zum Tod, die scharfzüngige Mia nimmt kein Blatt vor den Mund. So erfrischend, so komisch kann Beziehungsanalyse sein – und das ganz ohne Männer!

Há tragédias e há comédias, não é verdade? E são frequentemente semelhantes, um pouco como os homens e as mulheres. Uma comédia depende de parar a história exactamente no momento certo. Esta é a voz de Mia Fredrickson, a viperina e trágico-cómica narradora de Verão Sem Homens. Mia é obrigada a examinar a sua vida no dia em que, sem pré-aviso e depois de trinta anos de casamento, o seu marido lhe pede "um tempo". Após um período de internamento num hospital psiquiátrico, ela decide passar o Verão na sua cidade natal, onde a mãe vive num lar de idosos. Sozinha em casa, Mia entrega-se à fúria e à autocomiseração. Mas, lenta e ardilosamente, a pequena comunidade rural insinua-se na sua esfera pessoal. Os "Cinco Cisnes" - um surpreendente grupo constituído pela sua mãe e as amigas -, a jovem vizinha, as adolescentes que frequentam o seu workshop de poesia... uma multiplicidade de vozes, vulnerabilidades, pequenas tiranias e desafios que resultarão na mais improvável das relações. Siri Hustvedt, romancista, ensaísta e poeta, nasceu em Northfield, no Minnesota. Filha de um professor de Literatura Escandinava e de uma imigrante norueguesa, tirou o curso de História no St. Olaf College e o doutoramento em Inglês na Universidade de Columbia. Vive em Nova Iorque com o marido, o escritor Paul Auster, e a filha, a cantora e atriz Sophie Auster.

Dialogue à plusieurs niveaux de narration entre une jeune femme en quête de sa vocation à New York à la fin des années 70 et l''écrivaine chevronnée qu''elle est devenue quarante ans plus tard, ce “portrait de l''artiste en jeune femme”, septième roman de Siri Hustvedt, rassemble et magnifie les thèmes qui ont fait la renommée internationale de l''autrice : le temps comme étrangeté, la violence et la cruauté du patriarcat, la capacité de l''imaginaire à recréer le présent, voire à le guérir.

«La novel·la més ambiciosa de Siri Hustvedt. Hipnòtica, provocadora, inquietant.» [Salman Rushdie] Una reflexió sobre l’amor i l’art en forma de thriller Passejant per les galeries del SoHo (Nova York), l’historiador de l’art Leo Hertzberg queda fascinat per un quadre i comença a buscar-ne l’autor. Entre els dos homes sorgirà una profunda amistat que els unirà per a tota la vida, tant a ells com a les seves famílies. Trenta anys després, en Leo recorda la seva vida: el seu matrimoni, la seva amistat amb en Bill, el pintor; el naixement d’en Matt (el seu fill) i el d’en Mark (el fill d’en Bill), les segones núpcies d’en Bill amb la Violet, el seu èxit dins del món de l’art... i poc a poc anirà ens anirà desvelant foscos secrets guardats durant massa anys. Traducció de Jordi Martín Lloret. «Quan acabes la història és com si despertessis d’un somni profund durant el qual has viscut milers de vides, has canviat de sexe, d’edat i d’aparença.» (Le Figaro) «Una novel·la tan complexa i poderosa que quan arribes al final t’adones que el procés de desxiframent acaba de començar.» (Times Literary Supplement) «La crítica l’ha elogiat de forma unànime. Ja no es tracta de la dona de Paul Auster sinó d’una escriptora magistral amb un estil propi que no té res a envejar-li al seu marit.» (Matías Néspolo, El Mundo) Siri Hustvedt Viu a Brooklyn, Nova York. La seva primera novel·la, The Blindfold (Els ulls envenats, 1992) va tenir una gran acollida i va ser traduïda a setze llengües. La seva segona novel·la, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (L’encantament de Lily Dahl,1996) va rebre elogis similars. Allò que vaig estimar va ser publicada en castellà per Circe i Anagrama i ha convertit l’autora en una de les veus narratives contemporànies més importants. La seva darrera novel·la és The Sorrows of an American.brBRbrBRAllò que vaig estimar, de Siri Hustvedt (Portàtil) Gaspar Hernández parla de Siri Hustvedt al seu bloc