Bücher von Siri Hustvedt

A trail-blazing and inspiring collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience and psychology featuring The Delusions of Certainty, winner of the European Essay Prize 2019.As well as being a prize-winning, bestselling novelist, Siri Hustvedt is widely regarded as a leading thinker in the fields of neurology, feminism, art criticism and philosophy. She believes passionately that art and science are too often kept separate and that conversations across disciplines are vital to increasing our knowledge of the human mind and body, how they connect and how we think, feel and see. The essays in this volume - all written between 2011 and 2015 - are in three parts. A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women brings together penetrating pieces on particular artists and writers such as Picasso, Kiefer and Susan Sontag as well as essays investigating the biases that affect how we judge art, literature, and the world in general. The Delusions of Certainty is an essay about the mind/body problem, showing how this age-old philosophical puzzle has shaped contemporary debates on many subjects and how every discipline is coloured by what lies beyond argument-desire, belief, and the imagination. The essays in the final section, What Are We? Lectures on the Human Condition, tackle such elusive neurological disorders as synesthesia and hysteria. Drawing on research in sociology, neurobiology, history, genetics, statistics, psychology and psychiatry, this section also contains a profound consideration of suicide and a towering reconsideration of Kierkegaard. Together they form an extremely stimulating, thoughtful, wide-ranging exploration of some of the fundamental questions about human beings and the human condition, delivered with Siri Hustvedt's customary lucidity, vivacity and infectiously questioning intelligence.

Iris Vegan, a graduate student living alone and impoverished in New York, encounters four strong characters who fascinate and in different ways subordinate her: an inscrutable urban recluse who employs her to record the possessions of a murdered woman; a photographer whose eerie portrait of Iris takes on a life of its own; an old woman in hospital who tries to claim a remnant of the ailing Iris; and a professor she has an affair with. An exploration of female identity in an age when the old definitions - as some man's daughter/wife/mother - no longer apply, fuelled with eroticism and a sense of menace.

A revealing and unusal memoir by the bestselling author of What I Loved, an account of her search for the source of her mysterious nervous disorder which offers a fascinating exploration of the mind and its connection with the body 'provocative but often funny, encyclopedic but down to earth' Oliver Sacks.While speaking at a memorial event for her father, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. She managed to finish her talk and the paroxysms stopped, but not for good. Again and again she found herself a victim of the shudders. What had happened?Chronicling her search for the shaking woman, Hustvedt takes the reader on a journey into contemporary psychiatry, neurology and psychoanalysis. She unearths stories and theories from the annals of medical history, literature and philosophy, and delves into her own past. In the process, she raises fundamental questions: what is the relationship between mind and body? How do we remember? What is the self?In a seamless synthesis of personal experience and extensive research, Hustvedt conveys the often frightening mysteries of illness and the complexities of diagnosis. As engaging as it is thought-provoking, The Shaking Woman brilliantly illuminates the age-old dilemma of the mental and the physical, and what it means to be human.

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. Sie ist Romanautorin und Feministin. Die im vorliegenden Band versammelten, ebenso klarsichtigen wie radikalen Essays legen eindrucksvoll Zeugnis von ihren vielfältigen Talenten ab. Der erste Teil untersucht die Fragen, die mitbeeinflussen, wie wir Kunst und die Welt im Allgemeinen sehen und beurteilen: Fragen der Wahrnehmung, Fragen des Geschlechts. Grundlagen dieser Diskussion sind etwa Werke von Picasso, de Kooning, Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Robert Mapplethorpe, Susan Sontag und Karl Ove Knausgard. Der zweite Teil befasst sich mit neurologischen Störungen und, unter anderem, mit den Rätseln von Hysterie und Synästhesie sowie mit der Selbsttötung. In letzter Zeit wird oft gefordert, man müsste eine neue, stabile Brücke zwischen Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften bauen. Im Moment existiert nur eine behelfsmäßige, aber Siri Hustvedt fühlt sich ermutigt von den Reisenden, die sie in beide Richtungen überquert haben. "Eine Frau schaut auf Männer, die auf Frauen schauen" ist eine einsichts- und eindrucksvolle Bestandsaufnahme dieser Reisen.

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. Sie ist Romanautorin und Feministin. Die im vorliegenden Band versammelten, ebenso klarsichtigen wie radikalen Essays legen eindrucksvoll Zeugnis von ihren vielfältigen Talenten ab. Der erste Teil untersucht die Fragen, die mitbeeinflussen, wie wir Kunst und die Welt im Allgemeinen sehen und beurteilen: Fragen der Wahrnehmung, Fragen des Geschlechts. Grundlagen dieser Diskussion sind etwa Werke von Picasso, de Kooning, Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Robert Mapplethorpe, Susan Sontag und Karl Ove Knausgard. Der zweite Teil befasst sich mit neurologischen Störungen und, unter anderem, mit den Rätseln von Hysterie und Synästhesie sowie mit der Selbsttötung. In letzter Zeit wird oft gefordert, man müsste eine neue, stabile Brücke zwischen Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften bauen. Im Moment existiert nur eine behelfsmäßige, aber Siri Hustvedt fühlt sich ermutigt von den Reisenden, die sie in beide Richtungen überquert haben. "Eine Frau schaut auf Männer, die auf Frauen schauen" ist eine einsichts- und eindrucksvolle Bestandsaufnahme dieser Reisen.

Wie sehen, erinnern und fühlen wir? Wie interagieren wir mit anderen Menschen? Was heißt es, zu schlafen, zu träumen oder zu sprechen? Was ist das Selbst?In diesem Buch sind 32 Essays versammelt, die thematisch das gesamte Spektrum von Hustvedts vielfältigen Interessen abdecken: von der Kunsttheorie über die Literatur und Philosophie, die Psychologie und Psychoanalyse bis hin zu den Neurowissenschaften. Und doch tauchen immer wieder ähnliche Fragen auf - die Grundfragen unseres Menschseins.

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 ** The Telegraph's Best Fiction to Read 2014 ** St. Louis Post Dispatch's Best Books of 2014 ** The Independent Fiction Books of the Year 2014 ** One of Buzzfeed's Best Books Written by Women in 2014 ** San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2014 ** A Nancy Pearl Pick ** PopMatters.com's Best of 2014 Fiction Winner of the 2014 LA Times Book Prize for Fiction Finalist for the 2014 Kirkus Prize Hailed by The Washington Post as "Siri Hustvedt's best novel yet, an electrifying work,” The Blazing World is a masterful novel about perception, prejudice, desire, and one woman's struggle to be seen.In a new novel called "searingly fresh... A Nabokovian cat's cradle” on the cover of The New York Times Book Review, the internationally bestselling author tells the provocative story of artist Harriet Burden, who, after years of having her work ignored, ignites an explosive scandal in New York's art world when she recruits three young men to present her creations as their own. Yet when the shows succeed and Burden steps forward for her triumphant reveal, she is betrayed by the third man, Rune. Many critics side with him, and Burden and Rune find themselves in a charged and dangerous game, one that ends in his bizarre death. An intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle presented as a collection of texts, including Harriet's journals, assembled after her death, this "glorious mashup of storytelling and scholarship” (San Francisco Chronicle) unfolds from multiple perspectives as Harriet's critics, fans, family, and others offer their own conflicting opinions of where the truth lies. Writing in Slate, Katie Roiphe declared it "a spectacularly good read...feminism in the tradition of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex or Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own: richly complex, densely psychological, dazzlingly nuanced.” "Astonishing, harrowing, and utterly, completely engrossing” (NPR), Hustvedt's new novel is "Blazing indeed:...with agonizing compassion for all of wounded humanity”(Kirkus Reviews, starred review). It is a masterpiece that will be remembered for years to come.

«Eine Weile nachdem er das Wort Pause ausgesprochen hatte, drehte ich durch und landete im Krankenhaus. Die Pause war eine Französin. Natürlich war sie jung, und ich vermute, dass Boris schon lange scharf auf seine Kollegin gewesen war, bevor er sich auf ihre signifikanten. Bereiche stürzte ...»Von einer der großen Denkerinnen der US-Literatur: ein erfrischend frecher, geistreicher und amüsanter Roman über den sogenannten Geschlechterkrieg.«Die intellektuelle Demut und die Wissbegier sind Siri Hustvedts Schwestern.»DIE ZEIT

Nächtliche Blicke in ein erleuchtetes Fenster: Ein halbnackter, muskulöser Mann malt selbstvergessen und schweißgebadet an einem Ölbild. Die junge Lily Dahl, die ihn aus ihrem Fenster jenseits der Straße beobachtet, ist fasziniert. Abend für Abend schaut sie ihm zu, und eines Nachts schaltet sie ihr eigenes Licht an und zieht sich für ihn aus ...

In this unique neurological memoir Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious conditionWhile 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 ofRevolution in Mind, "a brilliant illumination for us all."

When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note among their late father's papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. Siri Hustvedt's The Sorrows of an American tells the story of the Davidsen family as brother and sister unbandage its wounds in the year following their father's funeral. Erik is a psychiatrist dangerously vulnerable to his patients; Inga is a writer whose late husband, a famous novelist, seems to have concealed a secret life. Interwoven with each new mystery in their lives are discoveries about their father's youth--poverty, the War, the Depression--that bring new implications to his relationship with his children.This masterful novel reveals one family's hidden sorrows in an "elegant meditation on familial grief, memory, and imagination" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).

From the author of the international bestseller What I Loved, a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and writers.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 The Enchantment of Lily Dahl 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.

From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved and The Summer Without Men, a dazzling collection of essays written with Siri Hustvedt's customary intelligence, wit and ability to convey complex ideas in a clear and lively way. Divided into three sections - Living, which draws on Siri's own life; Thinking, on memory, emotion and the imagination; and Looking, on art and artists - the essays range across the humanities and science as Siri explores how we see, remember, feel and interact with others, what it means to sleep, dream and speak, and what we mean by 'self'. The combination offers a profound and fascinating insight into ourselves as thinking, feeling beings.