Siri Hustvedt: 29 books

“The Delusions of Certainty is a unique book by an extraordinary author. Siri Hustvedt is a notable novelist, art scholar, and a philosopher of science. In this memorable and immensely enjoyable volume, Hustvedt rises above the exhausted debate over the two cultures, to demonstrate not just the...

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...

A compelling, radical, “richly explored” (The New York Times Book Review), and “insightful” (Vanity Fair) 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. In...

Lily Dahl, the young heroine of Siri Hustvedt's riveting novel, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, is a strong, beautiful and daring nineteen year old girl poised on the brink of womanhood. In the small town of Webster, Minnesota, Lily's life revolves around the Ideal Café. She lives above the café in...

The Sorrows of an American is a soaring feat of storytelling about the immigrant experience and the ghosts that haunt families from one generation to another When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note from an unknown woman among their dead father's papers, they believe...

Siri Hustvedt, die Autorin solcher internationaler Bestseller wie "Was ich liebte" und "Der Sommer ohne Männer", war schon immer fasziniert von der Biologie und der Theorie der menschlichen Wahrnehmung. Sie liebt die Kunst, die Geistes- und die Naturwissenschaften gleichermaßen....

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...

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...

Named 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 Fiction Books of 2014 ** Washington Post Top 50 Fiction Books of 2014 ** Boston Globe’s Best Fiction of 2014...

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...

«La mujer que mira a los hombres que miran a las mujeres». Así define Siri Hustvedt esta ambiciosa reunión de sus mejores ensayos, escritos entre 2011 y 2015. Su vasto conocimiento en un amplio abanico de disciplinas como el arte, la literatura, la neurociencia o el psicoanálisis ilumina una...

"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...

Una escritora consagrada que trabaja en sus memorias redescubre los viejos diarios de su primer año en Nueva York, a finales de la década de 1970. Recién salida de un pueblo de Minnesota, sin apenas dinero y con hambre de nuevas experiencias, se deslumbra por todo lo que le ofrece la ciudad: su...

Harriet Burden fue una personalidad enigmática del arte neoyorquino de los años ochenta y ahora, años después de su muerte, su figura es objeto de una indagación académica. Una indagación detectivesca, porque la personalidad de Harriet es poliédrica, provocadora y desconcertante. Conocida...