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Seleccionado para el MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 La artista Harriet Burden, furioso por la falta de atención que le dedica el mundo del arte en NY, lleva a cabo un experimento: esconde su identidad detrás de tres nombres masculinos en una serie de exposiciones. Su exito parece probar su postura, pero hay un aguijon en la cola - cuando se desenmascara a si misma, no todo el mundo la cree. Entonces su ultimo de los colaboradores se encuentra con un final extraño. En este fascinante tour de force, la historia de Burden emerge despues de su muerte a traves de una variedad de fuentes, incluyendo sus diarios (no del todo fiables) y los testimonios de sus hijos, amante y un amigo querido. Cada version es diferente, sin embargo, y los misterios se multiplican

Wie sehen, erinnern und fuhlen wir? Wie interagieren wir mit anderen Menschen? Was heit es, zu schlafen, zu traumen oder zu sprechen? Was ist das Selbst?Siri Hustvedt, die Autorin der Bestseller Die zitternde Frau und Der Sommer ohne Manner, versammelt hier 32 Essays, entstanden zwischen 2006 und 2011. Sie alle sind, in ihren eigenen Worten, verbunden durch eine lebenslange Neugier auf das, was es heit, ein Mensch zu sein. Thematisch decken sie das gesamte Spektrum von Hustvedts vielfaltigen Interessen ab: von der Kunsttheorie uber die Literatur und Philosophie, die Psychologie und Psychoanalyse bis hin zu den Neurowissenschaften. Und doch tauchen immer wieder ahnliche Fragen auf die Grundfragen unseres Menschseins.Hustvedts einzigartige Synthese des Wissens aus vielen Fachgebieten belebt den dringend notigen Dialog zwischen den Geistes- und den Naturwissenschaften. Ihre Essays zeigen sie als scharfsinnige Betrachterin unserer Welt und auf der Hohe ihres Schaffens.

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.

"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.

In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a New York gallery. He buys the work, tracks down its creator, Bill Weschler, and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. This is the story of their intense and trouble relationship, of the women in their lives and their work, of art and hysteria, love and seduction and their sons - born the same year but whose lives take very different paths.

Pocos días después del funeral del padre, Erik Davidsen y su hermana Inga encuentran entre los papeles del muerto una breve nota del año 1937 que alude a una tragedia, quizá un asesinato. Erik es psicoanalista, un hombre que escucha relatos. Inga es escritora, y en su ultimo libro habla de los recuerdos que son vueltos a imaginar en palabras. A partir de entonces, los hermanos intentan reconstruir la historia de su familia de emigrantes noruegos. Pero Inga y Erik tambien deben enfrentarse a sus propios secretos y relatos. Erik se ha divorciado hace poco tiempo, y la soledad lo ha convertido en alguien que jamas imagino ser. Inga, que estuvo casada con un escritor de culto, muerto cinco años antes, tiene que proteger a su hija, y protegerse a si misma, del acoso de un vengativo periodista. O, como dice ella, tiene que reescribir su propia historia de principio a fin... Uno de los libros mas profundos que he leido (Ron Charles, The Washington Post); La mejor novela americana de este año. Es Updike con tacones altos; no se la pierdan (Melissa Katsoulis, The Telegraph).

A stunning collection of essays by the author of WHAT I LOVED, in which she addresses many of the themes explored in her novels - identity, sexual attraction, relationships, family, mental illness, the power of the imagination, a sense of belonging and mortality. In three cases, she focuses on the novels of other writers - Dickens, James and Fitzgerald. She also refers to her own novels, affording an unusual insight into their creation.Whatever her topic, her approach is unaffected, intimate and conversational, inviting us both to share her thoughts and reflect on our own views and ideas.

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.

A provocative, exuberant novel about time, memory, desire, and the imagination from the internationally bestselling and prizewinning author of The Blazing World, Memories of the Future tells the story of a young Midwestern woman's first year in New York City in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious neighbor, Lucy Brite. As she listens to Lucy through the thin walls of her dilapidated building, S.H., aka "Minnesota," transcribes her neighbor's bizarre and increasingly ominous monologues in a notebook, along with sundry other adventures, until one frightening night when Lucy bursts into her apartment on a rescue mission. Forty years later, S.H., now a veteran author, discovers her old notebook, as well as early drafts of a never-completed novel while moving her aging mother from one facility to another. Ingeniously juxtaposing the various texts, S.H. measures what she remembers against what she wrote that year and has since forgotten to create a dialogue between selves across decades. The encounter both collapses time and reframes its meanings in the present. Elaborately structured, intellectually rigorous, urgently paced, poignant, and often wildly funny, Memories of the Future brings together themes that have made Hustvedt among the most celebrated novelists working today: the fallibility of memory; gender mutability; the violence of patriarchy; the vagaries of perception; the ambiguous borders between sensation and thought, sanity and madness; and our dependence on primal drives such as sex, love, hunger, and rage.

Siri Hustvedt, fidèle à son engagement envers la cause des femmes, analyse ici la nature et les implications du regard, bien souvent manipulateur, voire prédateur, que les artistes de sexe masculin t

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.

Artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from the New York art establishment, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts who exhibit her work as their own. And yet, even after she has unmasked herself, there are those who refuse to believe she is the woman behind the men. Presented as a collection of texts compiled by a scholar years after Burden's death, the story unfolds through extracts from her notebooks, reviews and articles, as well as testimonies from her children, her lover, a dear friend, and others more distantly connected to her. Each account is different, however, and the mysteries multiply. One thing is clear: Burden's involvement with the last of her 'masks' turned into a dangerous psychological game that ended with the man's bizarre death. This is a polyphonic tour de force from the internationally acclaimed author of What I Loved, an intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle that explores the way prejudice, fame, money and desire influence our perceptions of one another. Emotionally intense, intellectually rigorous, ironic and playful, The Blazing World is as gripping as it is thought-provoking.

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

El aprecio por un cuadro de Bill Wechsler lleva al historiador de arte Leo Hertzberg a querer conocer a su autor. Una profunda amistad, basada por igual en afinidades y contrastes, los unirá desde entonces, e incluira asimismo a sus familia. A lo largo de los años tres mujeres orbitan en su universo: Erica, la hermosa profesora casada con Leo, y las dos esposas del pintor. La primera Lucille, es una hermetica y perfeccionista poeta; la segunda, Violet, antigua modelo, se dedica a la investigacion psicologica. Pero cuando una muerte tragica sacude inesperadamente el mundo de estos personajes, entre ellos surge un nuevo orden, bajo el que late un oscuro engaño que acabara por erigirse en una amenaza de imprevisibles consecuencias. En esta ocasion la autora muestra su exquisita sensibilidad, su agudeza analitica y su maestria literaria en un apasionante estudio sobre las relaciones humanas y el proceso de la creacion artisitca