Siri Hustvedt

Living, Thinking, Looking (eBook, ePUB)

'A 21st-century Virginia Woolf' - Literary Review

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN

'Lucid, absorbing and vigorous'
Independent

'Richly intelligent'
Financial Times

In these fascinating essays, Siri Hustvedt shows what lies behind her fiction: an abiding curiosity about who we are and how we got that way. Covering a wide range of subjects, from the nature of desire to false memories and the paintings of Goya, she draws on the insights provided by both the arts and sciences to deepen our understanding of what it means to be human - to live, think and look.

'As an essayist, Hustvedt is the best kind: superbly clear, intellectually challenging but always human'
Independent on Sunday

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444732665
• Artikelnr.: 39271068

Autorenporträt

Siri Hustvedt is the author of seven novels, five collections of essays, a poetry collection and a memoir. Her books have been listed for major prizes, including the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize and the PEN America Literary Award, and she has been awarded the LA Times Book Prize, the Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon, the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities, the Princess of Asturia Award and the Openbank Literature Award, among others. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and has been awarded honorary PhDs from Johannes Gutenberg University, Stendhal University and the University of Oslo. She is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and has written on art for the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph. Born in Minnesota, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Rezensionen

Her erudition, the sharp clarity of her thinking, the variety of her sources and the supple ways in which she weaves them into personal narrative, coupled with her fearlessness in the face of those aspects of the human condition which are of necessity ambiguous, infuse her work with a rare kind of quiet intellectual confidence...I'll be returning to these essays. Melanie McGrath, Sunday Telegraph