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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.

"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 a provocative, witty, and revelatory novel about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old question of sameness and difference between the sexes.

La colección Palabra e Imagen traspasa fronteras, y en esta cuarta entrega da la bienvenida a la escritora norteamericana Siri Hustvedt (autora de obras tan sobresalientes como Todo lo que amé o Elegía para un americano), que recrea la figura de Simbad y sus siete viajes en una narración llena de encanto, ironía y recursos literarios de toda índole. Los tradicionales siete viajes se completan con un octavo, imaginario, que nace de una conversación entre una pareja de escritores. Esta original visión de Simbad convive con los espectaculares trabajos de Reza, el fotógrafo más destacado de Irán, autor de icónicas imágenes que han recibido multitud de galardones. Sus fotografías destilan magia y vida, y discurren en paralelo al relato de Siri Hustvedt, en un diálogo vitalista y evocador que nos traslada a otros tiempos.

«Siri Hustvedt, eine unserer herausragenden Schriftstellerinnen, gehört seit langem zu den brillantesten Erforschern von Gehirn und Geist. Kürzlich jedoch wandte sie ihr Forschungsinteresse sich selbst zu: Knapp drei Jahre nach dem Tod ihres Vaters, während einer Gedenkrede auf ihn, fand sie sich plötzlich von Konvulsionen geschüttelt. War das Hysterie, eine Übertragung, ein zufälliger epileptischer Anfall? Die zitternde Frau - provokant und amüsant, umfassend und niemals abgehoben - erzählt von ihren Bemühungen um eine Antwort darauf. So entsteht eine außergewöhnliche Doppelgeschichte: zum einen die ihrer verschlungenen Erkenntnissuche, zum anderen die der großen Fragen, die sich der Neuropsychiatrie heute stellen. Siri Hustvedts kluges Buch verstärkt unser Erstaunen über das Zusammenspiel von Körper und Geist.» Oliver Sacks «Siri Hustvedt beweist trotz oder gerade angesichts des autobiographischen Themas einmal mehr, was für eine großartige Erzählerin sie ist.» Süddeutsche Zeitung

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.

Seis selectos ensayos, de los que 4 versan sobre la relación entre arte y realidad. El quinto se adentra en el campo del erotismo, y en el último, recuerdos familiares son considerados como influenci

In this unique neurological memoir Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, 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 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? During her investigations, Hustvedt joins a discussion group in which neurologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and brain scientists trade ideas to develop a new field: neuropsychoanalysis. She volunteers as a writing teacher for psychiatric in-patients at the Payne Whitney clinic in New York City and unearths precedents in medical history that illuminate the origins of and shifts in our theories about the mind-body problem. 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.

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.

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.

Méconnue de son vivant, une artiste new-yorkaise, Harriet Burden, fait, après sa disparition, l''objet d''une étude universitaire en forme d''enquête qui, menée auprès de ceux qui l''ont côtoyée, des

Un ouvrage aussi exigeant qu'ambitieux qui rassemble diverses conférences prononcées par Siri Hustvedt sur la condition humaine. On y trouvera notamment une puissante lecture de Kierkegaard, une analyse tranchante du suicide, et des reflexions penetrantes sur l'hysterie, la synesthesie, la memoire, l'espace, et les dilemmes philosophiques poses par la fiction.