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Siri Hustvedt (born February 19, 1955) is an American novelist and essayist. Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fiction. Her books include The Blindfold (1992), The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996), What I Loved (2003), for which she is best known, A Plea for Eros (2006), The Sorrows of an American (2008), The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (2010), The Summer Without Men (2011), Living, Thinking, Looking (2012), The Blazing World (2014), and Memories of the Future (2019). What I Loved and The Summer Without Men were international bestsellers. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. Early life Daughter of professor Lloyd Hustvedt, Siri attended public school in her hometown, Northfield, Minnesota, and received a degree from the Cathedral School in Bergen, Norway, in 1973. She started writing at 13 after a family trip to Reykjavík, where she read various works of classic literature. Particularly impressed by Dickens's David Copperfield, she decided that she wanted to make literature her profession after finishing it. Hustvedt graduated from St. Olaf College with a B.A. in history in 1977. She moved to New York City to attend Columbia University as a graduate student in 1978. Her first published work was a poem in The Paris Review. Hustvedt lived in poverty during her college years, and resorted to an emergency loan from the university to survive. Career A small collection of poems, Reading to You, appeared in 1982 with Station Hill Press. She completed her PhD in English at Columbia in 1986. Her dissertation on Charles Dickens, Figures of Dust: A Reading of Our Mutual Friend, is an exploration of language and identity in the novel, with particular emphasis on Dickens's metaphors of fragmentation, his use of pronouns, and their relation to a narrative, dialogical conception of self. She refers in the dissertation to thinkers who influenced her later writing, including Søren Kierkegaard, Emile Benveniste, Roman Jakobson, Mikhail Bakhtin, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Mary Douglas, Paul Ricoeur, and Julia Kristeva. After finishing her dissertation, Hustvedt began writing prose. Two stories of the four that would become her first novel, The Blindfold, were published in literary magazines and later included in Best American Short Stories 1990 and 1991. Since then she has continued to write fiction and publish essays on the intersections between philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience. She also writes regularly about visual art. Hustvedt gave the third annual Schelling lecture on aesthetics at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. She has also given talks at the Prado in Madrid and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and published a volume of essays on painting: Mysteries of the Rectangle. In 2011, she delivered the annual Sigmund Freud lecture in Vienna, one of a distinguished list of speakers that includes Leo Bersani, Juliet Mitchell, Jessica Benjamin, Mark Solms, and Judith Butler. Hustvedt is a scholar and intellectual who engages with fundamental questions of contemporary ethics and epistemology. In her visits to European and German universities, she has given readings from her works and contributed to the interdisciplinary dialogue between the humanities and the sciences, notably in a keynote lecture and panel discussion on the relationship between the life sciences and literature at the 2012 annual conference of the German Association for American Studies in Mainz. In 2013, she delivered the opening keynote address at an international conference on Søren Kierkegaard in Copenhagen on the occasion of his 200th birthday. Hustvedt has published essays and papers in academic journals, including Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy, Neuropsychoanalysis, and Clinical Neurophysiology. Her collection of essays Living, Thinking, Looking demonstrates her intellectual range across several disciplines. In 2012, she received the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities. The Blazing World was long-listed for the Booker Prize, and she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oslo. Her works pose questions about the nature of identity, selfhood and perception. In The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves, an account of her seizure disorder, Hustvedt states her need to view her symptom not "through a single-window" but "from all angles." These multiple perspectives do not resolve themselves into a single view but rather create an atmosphere of ambiguity and flux. Hustvedt presents the reader with characters whose minds are inseparable from their bodies and their environments and whose sense of self is situated on the threshold between the conscious and unconscious. Her characters often suffer traumatic events that disrupt the rhythms of their lives and lead to disorientation and a discontinuity of their identities. Hustvedt's concern with embodied identity manifests itself in her investigation of gender roles and interpersonal relations. Both her fiction and nonfiction highlight the dynamics of the gaze and questions of ethics in art. Awards and recognitions A section of The Blindfold was made into a movie by the French filmmaker Claude Miller. The film La Chambre des Magiciennes won The International Critics Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. What I Loved was on the initial shortlist for the Prix Femina Étranger in France for best foreign book of the year. It was also short-listed for Waterstone's Literary Fiction Award in England and the Barcelona Bookseller's Award in Spain. It won the Prix des libraires du Quebec in Canada for best book of 2003. The Summer Without Men was also shortlisted for The Femina Prize in 2011. The Blazing World was longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and won the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. In 2015, Hustvedt was appointed as a lecturer in psychiatry at the Dewitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical School of Cornell University. Hustvedt is the 2012 recipient of the Gabarron International Award for Thought and Humanities. In 2014, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oslo. She received honorary doctorates from the Université Stendhal-Grenoble, France, in 2015, and from Gutenberg University-Mainz, Germany, in 2016. In 2019 she was awarded the Princess of Asturias Award in Literature. In 2024, Hustvedt reeived the Openbank Literature Award by Vanity Fair for her literary career. Personal life Hustvedt met her husband, writer Paul Auster, in 1981, and they married the following year. They live together in Brooklyn, New York. Their daughter, Sophie Auster (born 1987), is a singer/songwriter and actress. Auster used Iris, the narrator of Hustvedt's first novel, The Blindfold, in his novel Leviathan. In 2009, Hustvedt signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, calling for his releas.... Discover the Siri Hustvedt popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Siri Hustvedt books.
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Timon of Athens
William ShakespeareAfter squandering his wealth with prodigal generosity, a rich Athenian gentleman finds himself deep in debt. Unshaken by the prospect of bankruptcy, he is certain that the friends ...
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MORI Building
Minoru MoriFrom building office blocks in the charred ruins of postwar Tokyo to creating Japan's largest ever urban development, Mori Building Co. has revolutionized how cities are made. In ...
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Wise Women
Carole McKenzie'A woman is like a teabag only when in hot water do you realise how strong she is' Nancy ReaganWomen are never at a loss to express themselves, and smart women will have somethin...
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Els miratges de la certesa
Siri HustvedtQuè es la ment i com es relaciona amb el nostre cos? La síntesi del pensament de Siri Hustvedt.Què es la ment i com es relaciona amb el nostre cos? Som com som gràcies als gens o a...
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Offene Fragen
Vivian GornickDie Grande Dame der amerikanischen Essayistik empfiehlt: Lasst Bücher in euer Leben – und lest sie immer wieder!Für die preisgekrönte Journalistin Vivian Gornick sind Bücher Lebens...
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Hooked
Clare GeeIn Hooked, reformed addict Clare Gee draws on her own experiences of cocaine addiction, alcoholism and prostitution in telling the sensational story of a woman living on the edge.E...
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Me, My Hair, and I
Elizabeth Benedict“[A] splendid collection . . . By turns wry, tender, pointed, and laughoutloud funny.” Publishers Weekly“Untangles the many truths about hair, and the lives we lead underneath it.”...
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Heimatland
IKH Kronprinzessin Mette-Marit & Geir GulliksenZwölf literarische Stimmen aus Norwegen. Darunter so prominente Namen wie Karl Ove Knausgård, Siri Hustvedt, Dag Solstad and Tomas Espedal. Herausgeber von "Heimatland" sind IKH Kr...
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Visuality in the Works of Siri Hustvedt
Corinna ReipenThis book analyzes Siri Hustvedt’s three novels The Blindfold, What I Loved and The Sorrows of an American with a focus on visual art. Siri Hustvedt is one of the most popular Amer...
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Memories of the Future
Siri HustvedtA 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....
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Drei Frauen in Schwarz
Madeleine St. JohnSydney in den Fünfzigerjahren: Nach ihrem Examen hilft Lisa im berühmten Kaufhaus F.G. Goode aus. In der Abteilung für Cocktailkleider trifft sie auf Patty, Fay und Miss Jacobs, di...
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Eine Sprache der Liebe
Xiaolu GuoEine Liebe im Spannungsfeld von östlicher und westlicher Lebenswelt: charmant, poetisch und voller HumorEine junge Chinesin kommt nach London. Sie lässt alles hinter sich, will ein...
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A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
Siri HustvedtA compelling, radical, “richly explored” (The New York Times Book Review), and “insightful” (Vanity Fair) collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philo...
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The Kray Files
Colin FryWhen Ron and Reg Kray were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1968, most people thought that was the last they'd hear of two of the most notorious and vicious criminals Britain has ...
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Headspace
Amber MarksCrime detection has gone to the dogs and squirrels are being busted for espionage. If you've never wondered about the new direction of 'intelligenceled policing' in our society, no...
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Eine Frau in New York
Vivian GornickStadtluft macht Frauen frei!Wir finden zu uns, indem wir anderen begegnen. Vivian Gornick ist eine Suchende, und nichts beruhigt ihr fragendes Herz mehr als ein Fußmarsch durch die...
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The Old Bailey
Theresa MurphyThis is the story of an arena of crime and degradation, of infamy and human suffering. It is the history of the Old Bailey, an institution as flawed as all manmade attempts at just...
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Die Resonanzen
Helga Flatland, Elke Ranzinger & Ina KronenbergerMathilde, eine Lehrerin aus Oslo, verliert nach der Affäre mit einem ihrer Schüler den Job. Orientierungslos geworden sehnt sich Mathilde nach Einfachheit und einer natürlichen Ord...
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Burke and Hare
Brian Bailey'My Lord, You are aware that, at this moment, the public feeling is strongly excited against the perpetrators of the late foul and cold blooded murders that have taken place in the...
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John Fowles
Jonathan Noakes & Margaret ReynoldsThe French Lieutenant's Woman, The Magus, A MaggotIn Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of John Fowles. Vintage Living Texts...
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The Blazing World
Siri HustvedtNamed 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 Fi...
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Praise of Folly
Desiderius Erasmus & Betty RadiceErasmus of Rotterdam (c. 14661536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the indiv...
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The Players
Zander MartinTwo friends are about to embark on the trip of a lifetime.Meet Pete: an utter failure when it comes to women and in desperate need of a lucky break. Meet Pete's best friend, CJ: an...
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Auf immer verbunden
Domenico Starnone»Poetisch, lebendig, voller Energie. Und voller Humor. Dieser Roman ist große Literatur.« Jhumpa LahiriVanda und Aldo können auf ein langes gemeinsames Leben zurückblicken, auch we...
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Ich und meine Mutter
Vivian GornickVivian Gornick ist eine Entdeckung!Mütter sind anstrengend und bleiben es ein Leben lang. Schon als Kind spürt Vivian Gornick bei ihrer Mutter eine blinde Wut über deren Schicksal ...
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Visuality in the Works of Siri Hustvedt
Corinna Sophie ReipenThis book analyzes Siri Hustvedt's three novels ‘The Blindfold, What I Loved ’and ‘The Sorrows of an American ’with a focus on visual art. Siri Hustvedt is one of the most popular ...
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Losses and Gains
Lya Fett LuftIn her bestselling book Losses and Gains, Lya Luft draws on her own experiences of loss and gain in marriage and family to address the universal themes of childhood, love and matur...
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New Science
Giambattista Vico & David MarshBarely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (16681744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and law...
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Miss Angel
Angelica GooddenA word was coined to describe the condition of people stricken with a new kind of fever when the Swissborn artist Angelica Kauffman (17411807) came to London in 1766. 'The whole wo...
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Das dritte Hotel
Laura van den BergHavanna, die Liebe und der Tod die traumwandlerische Reise einer außergewöhnlichen FrauMit einem Flug ins sommerliche Kuba beginnt für Clare eine flirrende Reise in die Vergangen...
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What about the ONE
Günter von HummelSiri Hustvedt's wonderful novels captivate with their wealth of fantasy and the neuro and psychological sciences that always play a part in the background. But of all things sh...
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Crossing the Line
Christian PlowmanAs he rose through the ranks of various departments of the Metropolitan Police, Christian Plowman dreamt of being an undercover cop. When he finally achieved his ambition, becoming...
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Thomas De QuinceyWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKSOnce upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which ph...
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Was es vom EIN gibt
Günter von HummelSiri Hustvedts wunderbare Romane bestechen durch ihren Phanatsiereichtum und den im Hintergrund stets mitspielenden neuro und psychologischen Wissenschaften. Doch ausgerechnet von ...
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Conversation avec Siri Hustvedt
Pauline Guéna & Guillaume BinetQuand Richard Ford ouvrit la porte, le vent du nord faisait tinter les grelots de glace dans les arbres du Maine et la mer rugissait dans la tempête.Sur les murs de son studio de S...
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The Blindfold
Siri HustvedtFrom 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 circums...