Лучшие книги Сири Хустведт

Сири Хустведт - одна из самых заметных фигур в современной американской литературе: романистка, поэтесса, влиятельный эссеист и литературовед, а кроме того - на протяжении без малого тридцати лет жена и муза другого известного прозаика, Пола Остера. "Что я любил" - третий и, по оценкам критики, наиболее совершенный из ее романов. Нью-йоркский профессор-искусствовед Лео Герцберг вспоминает свою жизнь и многолетнюю дружбу с художником Биллом Векслером. Любовные увлечения, браки, разводы, подрастающие дети и трагические события, полностью меняющие привычный ход жизни, - энергичное действие в романе Хустведт гармонично уживается с…

Литературная слава блистательной американки Сири Хустведт растет стремительно. Ее книги переведены на шестнадцать языков, выходят на нескольких континентах, литературоведы пристально следят за ее творчеством. Романистка, поэтесса, влиятельный эссеист, Сири Хустведт к тому же является женой и музой другого знаменитого прозаика, Пола Остера.
"Печали американца" - захватывающий семейный роман, где Хустведт виртуозно исследует память и подсознание своих персонажей, недаром главный герой, Эрик Давидсен, по профессии психиатр. Вернувшись из Миннесоты в Нью-Йорк после похорон отца, Эрик и его сестра Инга вступают в странный период, который Инга называет "годом тайн". Невыясненные семейные секреты не дают им покоя. Они читают воспоминания отца, встречаются с людьми, его знавшими. Одновременно обнаруживается, что и прошлое умершего мужа Инги, культового писателя, тоже имеет свои темные пятна... По признанию писательницы, "Печали американца" - роман во многом автобиографический, в нем использованы мемуары ее отца Ллойда Хустведта и подлинные факты из истории трех поколений ее семьи.

"За гранью нервного срыва" - книга писательницы, поэтессы, эссеиста и литературоведа Сири Хустведт, одной из самых заметных фигур в современной американской литературе, а кроме того, уже без малого тридцать лет жены другого известного романиста - Пола Остера. Хустведт рассказывает о своем нервном расстройстве, которое началось в тот день, когда она произнесла речь в память об умершем отце, и длилось несколько последних лет. Это история долгого и непростого пути, пройденного Хустведт: от поисков симптомов болезни, диагнозов, которые могли бы объяснить, что с ней происходит, и до конкретных шагов, предпринятых, чтобы излечиться. Автор…

Cuando Boris Izcovich dijo la palabra «pausa», Mia Fredricksen, de cincuenta y cinco años, que llevaba casada treinta años con Boris, enloqueció. Porque lo que deseaba su marido era una pausa en su matrimonio, después de treinta años sin adulterios por parte de ninguna de las partes –aunque parezca increíble–, una hija encantadora que iniciaba su carrera de actriz y una relación entre ellos que había ido evolucionando desde el ardor guerrero de los primeros tiempos a la simbiosis casi telepática de los últimos. Hay que decir que la «pausa» de Boris es francesa, compañera de trabajo en el laboratorio –ambos son neurocientíficos–, joven y con buenas tetas. Pero la locura de Mia no fue más que una breve psicosis reactiva, y a la semana y media la dejaron marchar de la clínica donde había sido internada. Y éstos son los prolegómenos del verano en que Mia regresa a Bonden, la ciudad de su infancia, donde aún vive su madre en una residencia para ancianas activas e independientes. Será un verano rabioso en lo personal y reflexivo en lo intelectual, porque Mia es poeta, con varios libros publicados. Alquila una casa, se relaciona con sus vecinos, una joven recién casada con dos niños y un marido que despierta en Mia sospechas de maltrato, y visita cada día a su madre, de más de ochenta años, y a su grupo de amigas, «los Cisnes», que son cinco –la mayor ya ha pasado los cien años y morirá en el curso del verano– y se mantienen activas, vivas e imbatibles. Y recupera los recuerdos de su infancia, y descubre algunos secretos de la femineidad de otras generaciones, como los tapices que borda en secreto una de los Cisnes, que esconden en bolsillos y pliegues ocultos escenas eróticas, o blasfemas, o acres burlas al mundo. Mia también dirige un taller de poesía con un grupo de estudiantes en el instituto de Bonden. Y con la producción literaria de las adolescentes, la eclosión de su femineidad y sus crueles conspiraciones, las historias y las vidas de los viejos Cisnes y los incidentes del joven matrimonio, más su propia vida, Mia urde esta veloz, brillante comedia feminista, de inesperado final...

Siri Hustvedt kehrt in diesem Roman in die New Yorker Kunstwelt aus ihrem berühmtesten Buch "Was ich liebte" zurück. "Die gleißende Welt" ist der Titel eines utopischen Romans von Margaret Cavendish, die im 17. Jahrhundert als eine der ersten Frauen überhaupt unter ihrem eigenen Namen publizierte. Als frühe Universalgelehrte ist sie Vorbild und Idol von Harriett Burden, der Witwe eines einflussreichen New Yorker Galeristen. Nach dessen vorzeitigem Tod in den siebziger Jahren beginnt Harriett - in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung nichts als die Frau an der Seite des berühmten Mannes, aber in Wahrheit hochtalentiert - ein heimliches Experiment: eine Karriere als Installationskünstlerin, die sich hinter dem angeblichen Werk dreier männlicher "Masken" verbirgt, das in Wahrheit sie selbst erschaffen hat. Doch der Faustische Handel schlägt fehl - einer dieser Maskenmänner, selbst ein bekannter Künstler, durchkreuzt ihr Rollenspiel und setzt sein eigenes dagegen, und es kommt zum Kampf zweier großer Geister. Das Buch ist ein Konzert widerstreitender Stimmen, eine polyphone Tour de Force über die Macht von Vorurteilen, Begierde, Geld und Ruhm. Es versammelt alle großen Themen Siri Hustvedts aus Literatur, Kunst, Psychologie und Naturwissenschaften. Ein mutiges, schillerndes Meisterstück.

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 Hustvedts 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 Hustvedts 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.

A compelling and radical 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."

Siri Hustvedt has always been fascinated by biology and how human perception works. She is a lover of art, the humanities, and the sciences. She is a novelist and a feminist. Her lively, lucid essays in "A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women" begin to make some sense of those plural perspectives.

Divided into three parts, the first section, “A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women,” investigates the perceptual and gender biases that affect how we judge art, literature, and the world in general. Among the legendary figures considered are Picasso, De Kooning, Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Susan Sontag, Robert Mapplethorpe, the Guerrilla Girls, and Karl Ove Knausgaard.

The second part, “The Delusions of Certainty,” is about the age-old mind/body problem that has haunted Western philosophy since the Greeks. Hustvedt explains the relationship between the mental and the physical realms, showing what lies beyond the argument—desire, belief, and the imagination.

The final section, “What Are We? Lectures on the Human Condition,” discusses neurological disorders and the mysteries of hysteria. Drawing on research in sociology, neurobiology, history, genetics, statistics, psychology, and psychiatry, this section also contains a profound and powerful consideration of suicide.

There has been much talk about building a beautiful bridge across the chasm that separates the sciences and the humanities. At the moment, we have only a wobbly walkway, but Hustvedt is encouraged by the travelers making their way across it in both directions. "A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Womeny is an insightful account of the journeys back and forth.

Sparkling essays on a variety of subjects--literature, art, popular culture, autobiography--by a renowned young American novelist.

In her brilliant and daring novels The Blindfold and The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, Siri Hustvedt has won critical acclaim and a rapidly expanding international audience. But she is also a wide-ranging essayist and critic, frequently reexamining in her fascinating nonfiction many of the central leitmotifs of her fiction.

The six pieces in Yonder, Hustvedt's first book of essays, are all meditations on the complex relationship between art and the world. They include a personal essay on memory and place, which investigates the images we retain from our lives, the lives of others in the world, and the lives of characters in books. In "Vermeer's Annunciation," Hustvedt gives an entirely original interpretation of the Vermeer painting Woman with a Pearl Necklace. In "Ghosts at the Table," she examines the essence of still life as a genre in painting from Cotan and Chardin to Philip Guston. Other essays include a profound piece about Dickens, a reassessment of The Great Gatsby, and a witty and provocative assault on contemporary pieties entitled "A Plea for Eros."

This is the story of two men who first become friends in 1970s New York, of the women in their lives, and of their sons, born the same year. Both Leo Hertzberg, an art historian, and Bill Weschler, a painter, are cultured, decent men, but neither is equipped to deal with what happens to their children Leo s son drowns when he s 12, while Bill s son Mark grows up to be a delinquent, and the acolyte of a sinister, guru-like artist who spawns murder in his wake. Spanning the hedonism of the eighties and the chill-out nineties, this multi-layered novel combines a plot of mounting menace with a deeply moving account of familial relationships and a superbly observed portrait of an artist, set against the backdrop of a society reaching new depths of depravity in its frenetic quest for the next fashion, drug and thrill.

Bestselling novelist Siri Hustvedt's inspired collection of essays on painting is now available in paperback. In Mysteries of the Rectangle , Hustvedt concentrates her narrative gifts on the works of such masters as Francisco Goya, Jan

The protagonist of Siri Hustvedt's astonishing second novel is a heroine of the old style: tough, beautiful, and brave. Standing at the threshold of adulthood, she enters a new world of erotic adventure, profound but unexpected friendship, and inexplicable, frightening acts of madness. Lily's story is also the story of a small town--Webster, Minnesota--where people are brought together by a powerful sense of place, both geographical and spiritual. Here gossip, secrets, and storytelling are as essential to the bond among its people as the borders that enclose the town.

The real secret at the heart of the book is the one that lies between reality and appearances, between waking life and dreams, at the place where imagination draws on its transforming powers in the face of death.

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 strange 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.

Iris Vegan, a graduate student living alone and impoverished in New York, encounters four strong characters who fascinate and in different ways subordinate her: an inscrutable urban recluse who employs her to record the possessions of a murdered woman; a photographer whose eerie portrait of Iris takes on a life of its own; an old woman in hospital who tries to claim a remnant of the ailing Iris; and a professor she has an affair with. An exploration of female identity in an age when the old definitions as some man s daughter/wife/mother no longer apply, fuelled with eroticism and a sense of menace.