New Releases by Siri Hustvedt

"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.

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.

Colección de ensayos en torno a conocidas obras del arte occidental, que tienen en común la seducción de su misterio. Ante la ventana abierta de los lienzos, Siri Hustvedt propone al lector no sólo un paseo por la historia de la pintura, sino también por la vida. Unos textos esclarecedores y plenos de sensibilidad.

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.

En los ensayos de Siri Hustvedt suelen convivir dos características en apariencia contrapuestas: una extrema capacidad analítica de la sociedad y el fenómeno artístico, y un notable interés por lo autobiográfico.

En Los ojos vendados, Iris Vegan, una estudiante de literatura de la Universidad de Columbia, relata sus inquietantes encuentros, con personajes neoyorquinos que el azar y la coincidencia han puesto en su camino.

Au milieu des années 1970, à New York, deux couples d''artistes ont partagé les rêves de liberté de l''époque. De l''art et de la création, ils ont fait le ciment d''une amitié qu''ils voulaient éternelle et, quand ils ont fondé leur famille, se sont installés dans des appartements voisins. Rien n''a pu les préparer aux coups dont le destin va les frapper et qui vont infléchir radicalement le cours de leurs vies... Siri Hustvedt convie ici à un voyage à travers les régions inquiétantes de l''âme : bouleversant, ambigu, vertigineux, Tout ce que j''aimais est le roman d''une génération coupable d''innocence qui se retrouve, vingt ans plus tard, au bout de son beau rêve.

"Em 1975, o historiador da arte Leo Hertzberg visita uma galeria do SoHo, em Nova York, e sente-se atraído por um quadro de William Wechsler, pintor que até então desconhece. Fascinado pela obra, compra o quadro e vai atrás do artista. É o início de uma amizade duradoura. Leo e William vão morar no mesmo prédio, com as respectivas mulheres, e tornam-se pais na mesma época. No entanto, os anos de felicidade serão abalados - primeiro por uma tragédia, depois por um caso de dupla personalidade, que vem à tona lenta e corrosivamente. Vinte e cinco anos depois do primeiro encontro, Leo retraça o envolvimento afetivo com o amigo artista, e revê a história das duas famílias. Hustvedt expõe com maestria a intimidade de um homem que, corroído pelo tempo, tenta dar sentido ao que viveu. Neste thriller psicológico, a autora aborda temas como amizade, amor, arte e esquizofrenia, conduzindo o leitor a regiões obscuras da existência - que, paradoxalmente, podem iluminar toda uma vida. "

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.

What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler; and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo''s story, which spans twenty-five years, follows the growing involvement between his family and Bill''s--an intricate constellation of attachments that includes the two men, their wives, Erica and Violet, and their sons, Matthew and Mark. The families live in the same New York apartment building, rent a house together in the summers and keep up a lively exchange of ideas about life and art, but the bonds between them are tested, first by sudden tragedy, and then by a monstrous duplicity that slowly comes to the surface. A beautifully written novel that combines the intimacy of a family saga with the suspense of a thriller, What I Loved is a deeply moving story about art, love, loss, and betrayal.

Meditaions on the complex relationship between art and the world.

Lily Dahl es una heroína a la antigua: dura, hermosa y valiente. Siendo adolescente queda fascinada por un exótico forastero. Impulsada hacia un nuevo mundo de aventuras eróticas, Lily se verá envuelta en inexplicables y temerosos actos de locura.

" Pour moi, Klaus demeurait un jeune homme, en dépit du fait que les gens qui me connaissaient sous ce nom ne me prenaient jamais pour un garçon. Le fossé entre ce que j''étais bien obligée d''admettre devant les autres - à savoir : que j''étais une femme - et mes rêves intérieurs ne me dérangeait pas. En devenant Klaus la nuit, j''avais effectivement brouillé mon genre. Le costume, mon crâne tondu et mon visage nu modifiaient la perception que les gens avaient de moi, et à travers leurs yeux je changeais de personnalité. Jusqu''à ma façon de parler changeait quand j''étais Klaus. " Entre ombre et lumière, entre nuit et jour, dans la ville superlative, New York - elle-même personnage à part entière de ces récits -, Iris Vegan la narratrice, fait l''expérience d''étranges rencontres et de singulières transformations de sa propre identité. Polyptyque à quatre volets, les Yeux bandés a marqué, lors de sa publication en 1993, l''entrée en littérature d''un talent subtil et incontestable, celui de Siri Hustvedt.