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'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear.' Hilary Mantel, GuardianFeminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I...
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post'A 21st-century Virginia Woolf' Literary ReviewA provocative, wildly funny, intellectually rigorous and...
WINNER OF THE EUROPEAN ESSAY PRIZEFROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'It's hard to overstate the pleasure and the comfort that such demystification provides . . . it does indeed make the world feel larger, more expansive, more alive to the touch'...
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...
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014The artist Harriet Burden, furious at the lack of attention paid her by the New York art world, conducts an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts in a series of exhibitions. Their success seems to prove her...
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 TimesIn these fascinating essays, Siri Hustvedt shows what lies behind her fiction: an abiding...
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...
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'A luminous collection of mind-expanding pieces on literary and philosophical themes' Observer'Thoughtful and sensuous'Daily TelegraphThis illuminating collection...
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONFROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED 'A taut and convincing drama, as well as an intriguing metaphysical thriller' Sunday Times'Full of humour, surprise and powerful images' ObserverLily Dahl is a...
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'An astonishing family drama . . . almost certainly the best American novel you will read this year'Sunday Telegraph'Almost impossible to put down'Independent'Masterful'The Times'Wonderful'ObserverWhile clearing...
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWith an introduction by Megan Nolan'Siri Hustvedt's most ambitious, most rewarding novel. It mesmerises, arouses, disturbs' Salman Rushdie'Defiantly complex and frequently dazzling' Sunday Times'A big, wide, sensuous novel -...
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'Funny, moving and erudite, playfully reminding us of a contemporary Jane Austen'Daily Mail'Astoundingly joyful'Guardian'Alarmingly funny'Times Literary SupplementAfter Mia's husband of thirty years asks for a...
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'Provocative but often funny, encyclopedic but down to earth . . . an extraordinary double story' Oliver Sacks'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of...
À travers quelques figures majeures des arts plastiques (peintres, photographes, cinéastes…), Siri Hustvedt, fidèle à son engagement vis-à-vis de la cause des femmes, évoque la nature et les implications du regard, bien souvent manipulateur voire prédateur, que les...
Ce nouveau recueil d’essais de Siri Hustvedt, qui mêle philosophie féministe et mémoire familial, explore les frontières mouvantes qui définissent l’expérience humaine, y compris celles que l’on pense immuables – entre nous et les autres, entre nature et culture, entre...
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 réflexions pénétrantes sur...
Dialogue à plusieurs niveaux de narration entre une jeune femme en quête de sa vocation à New York à la fin des années 70 et l’écrivain chevronné qu’elle est devenue quarante ans plus tard, ce “portrait de l’artiste en jeune femme”, septième roman de Siri Hustvedt,...
Les Mirages de la certitude revisite la manière dont l’antique question (jamais résolue) du rapport du corps et de l’esprit a informé la pensée contemporaine, et ce souvent pour la déformer, voire la brouiller, dans les domaines des neuro-sciences, de la psychiatrie, de...
Après sa disparition, une artiste plasticienne, Harriet Burden (dite “Harry”), méconnue de son vivant, fait l’objet d’une “enquête” menée par un professeur d'esthétique auprès de tous ceux qui, de près ou de loin, l’ont côtoyée de son vivant. Cet envoûtant thriller...
Incapable de supporter plus longtemps la liaison que son mari entretient avec une femme plus jeune qu'elle, Mia quitte brusquement New York pour se rendre dans le Minnesota et se réfugier quelque temps auprès de sa mère octogénaire. Parcours d'une femme blessée en forme...
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