Bøger af Siri Hustvedt

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.

Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler; and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo's story, which spans twenty-five years, follows the growing involvement between his family and Bill's--an intricate constellation of attachments that includes the two men, their wives, Erica and Violet, and their sons, Matthew and Mark.The families live in the same New York apartment building, rent a house together in the summers and keep up a lively exchange of ideas about life and art, but the bonds between them are tested, first by sudden tragedy, and then by a monstrous duplicity that slowly comes to the surface. A beautifully written novel that combines the intimacy of a family saga with the suspense of a thriller, What I Loved is a deeply moving story about art, love, loss, and betrayal.

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.

En kvinde ser på mænd der ser på kvinder er en essaysamling om kunst, feminisme, neurovidenskab, psykologi og filsofi skrevet af den norsk-amerikanske forfatter Siri Hustvedt, der bl.a. har skrevet romanen Den flammende verden. Samlingen bærer præg af den karakterisktiske personlige grundtone, man finder i alt, hvad Siri Hustvedt skriver og teksterne er båret af hendes lidenskab for kunst, humaiora og videnskab.

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.

The author and Pedro Almodovar first met in Madrid in 1984, during the photographer's first Madrid-based exhibition at the Fernando Vijande Gallery. This book brings together a collection of 31 Mapplethorpe images spanning 1976 to 1989, as selected by Almodovar himself for an exhibition at the Galeria Elvira Gonzalez in 2011.

Out of the blue, your husband of thirty years asks you for a pause in your marriage to indulge his infatuation with a young Frenchwoman.Do you:a) assume it's a passing affair and play alongb) angrily declare the marriage overc) crack upd) retreat to a safe haven and regroup?Mia Fredricksen cracks up first, then decamps for the summer to the prairie town of her childhood, where she rages, fumes, and bemoans her sorry fate as abandoned spouse. But little by little, she is drawn into the lives of those around her; her mother and her circle of feisty widows, her young neighbour, with two small children and a loud, angry husband; and the diabolical pubescent girls in her poetry class. By the end of the summer without men, wiser though definitely not sadder, Mia knows what she wants to fight for and on whose terms.Provocative, mordant, and fiercely intelligent, The Summer Without Men is a gloriously vivacious tragi-comedy about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old war between the sexes - a novel for our times by one of the most acclaimed American writers.

Lily Dahl is a heroine of the old school: tough, beautiful and brave. A nineteen-year-old waitress and aspiring actress living in Webster, Minnesota, she becomes enchanted by an exotic outsider - an artist from New York. Drawn into a world of erotic adventure, she finds herself the target of mysterious acts of madness as she strains against the confines of small town life.

Siri Hustvedts store og meget anmelderroste roman om to nabofamilier - kunstnere og intellektuelle - i SoHo, New York. Det jeg elskede er en gribende roman om den vestlige verdens menneskelige ekstremer.Kunsthistorikeren Leo opsøger kunstneren bag et fascinerende maleri og fette bliver starten på et livslangt venskab mellem Leo og maleren, Bill Weschler. Leo forelsker sig stormende i den yngre litteraturhistoriker Erica og de flytter ind i lejligheden under Bill og hans hustru Lucille. Lejligheden er placeret downtown Manhattan og de to par tager aktivt del i hinandens liv og det kunstneriske miljø, der omgiver dem.Da de to par næsten samtidigt får hver deres velskabte søn, synes lykken inden for rækkevidde. Men pludseligt rammer en tragedie af dimensioner de to familier og intet bliver igen som før.OM BOGENOg det er netop, hvad Siri Hustvedts mageløse og meget eksistentialistiske roman handler om. At livets onde tilfældighed ikke kan blive en egocentrisk undskyldning for noget som helst over for næsten. At indse at kærligheden har sin pris, enten den foldes flamboyant ud på sengens lagen eller fejes fejt ind under skrivemaskinens underlag. - PolitikenRomanen åbner med den forventningsstimulerende sætning: Min søster kaldte det ’hemmelighedernes år’… Heldigvis deler Siri Hustvedt hemmelighederne med sine læsere, og jeg kan kun sige at amerikanerens lidelse, har været min nydelse. - Klaus RothsteinOM FORFATTERENSiri Hustvedt er en amerikansk forfatter, men datter af norsk-amerikanske forældre og voksede op i Minnesota. 23 år gammel flyttede hun til New York, hvor hun blev uddannet i litteraturvidenskab på Columbia University.For 22 år siden mødte hun sin ægtemand, forfatteren Paul Auster. Siden hun fik udgivet sin første bog i 1983, digtsamlingen 'Reading to You', har hun skrevet både noveller, essays (især om kunst) og romaner.Hendes tre romaner er oversat til mange sprog. Hendes første roman udkom i 1992 og blev samme år udgivet på dansk under titlen 'Med bind for øjnene'. I 1997 udkom 'Lily Dahls fortryllelse'. 'Det jeg elskede', udkom på dansk i 2002 og var seks år undervejs.

Den 22-årige studerende Iris Vegan fra Midtvesten kommer i et ildevarslende, kulisseagtigt New York ud for besynderlige tildragelser. Hun møder fire personer, der alle på foruroligende vis ændrer hendes identitets konturer. I romanen MED BIND FOR ØJNENE lader forfatteren sit emne med gennemtrængende seksualitet og dramatiserende den kvindelige psyke, der er fanget i magt og underkastelse.PRESSEN SKREV“Hvad Hustvedt frem for alt har i sin palet er en erotisk dybdevirkning, snart faretruende og mørk med gnidrede skygger af dominans og underkastelse, snart gyldent fejrende sig selv som ren og skær livskraft midt i New York.” - Bog Green Jensen i Weekendavisen.“Der er rigtig meget guf for litteraturelskere i denne bog. Siri Hustvedt skriver som en drøm, og selvom man måske ikke altid kan følge med i de filosofiske betragtninger, så har man alligevel altid følelsen af at forstå. Man kan ikke andet end nyde både ord og stemninger. Og stemning er Hustvedts varemærke. Hun kan skrive så det driver én koldt ned af ryggen, og de mennesketegninger, hun kan diske op med, er ikke for sarte sjæle.” - Litteratursiden