Siri Hustvedt Boeken

Bill en Leo zijn hartsvrienden. Ze delen hun passie voor kunst en literatuur, wonen in hetzelfde flatgebouw in New York, zijn gek op elkaars vrouwen en krijgen ongeveer tegelijkertijd een zoon. Door een tragisch ongeval sterft plotseling, op elfjarige leeftijd, de zoon van Leo. De twee gezinnen proberen de klap te boven te komen, maar niets is meer zoals het was. Het noodlot slaat opnieuw toe wanneer Bill overlijdt en zijn zoon betrokken raakt bij een duistere moord. Leo voelt zich verantwoordelijk voor de jongen en in een wanhopige poging om hem te redden zet hij een wilde achtervolging in. Met grote mensenkennis en intensiteit zet Siri Hustvedt levensechte en onweerstaanbare personages neer, die bij hun pogingen om de mysteries van het leven te doorgronden elkaar dicht naderen. Wat me lief was gaat over liefde en vriendschap, identiteit en verlies, dood en rouw, kunst en geweld. Het is een spannende en intelligente roman die existentiële levenskwesties aansnijdt en zowel ontroert als tot denken aanzet.

In het leven van een Amerikaanse studente, die haar eigen identiteit aan het zoeken is, spelen in verschillende perioden vier mensen een grote rol.

In this illuminating and absorbing collection of essays, Siri Hustvedt explores many of the themes that preoccupy her novels: identity and memory, sexuality and mortality, psychology, love and the power of imagination. But here she offers her personal experience - as daughter, sister, mother and wife, student, reader and writer - to illustrate fundamental aspects of our lives as individuals and social beings in the modern world. She draws, too, on the work of Henry James, F Scott Fitzgerald and Charles Dickens, probing their insights into human nature. Wise, honest and luminously intelligent, this is a book that invites us to look afresh at ourselves and the universe we inhabit.

In a Trilogy of Works brought together in a single volume, Siri Hustvedt demonstrates the striking range and depth of her knowledge in both the humanities and the sciences. Armed with passionate curiosity, a sense of humor, and insights from many disciplines, she repeatedly upends received ideas and cultural truisms. "A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women" examines particular artworks but also human perception itself, including the biases that influence how we judge art, literature, and the world. Picasso, de Kooning, Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Susan Sontag, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Karl Ove Knausgaard all come under Hustvedt's intense scrutiny. "The Delusions of Certainty" exposes how the age-old, unresolved mind-body problem has shaped and often distorted and confused contemporary thought in neuroscience, psychiatry, genetics, artificial intelligence, and evolutionary psychology. "What Are We? Lectures on the Human Condition" includes a powerful reading of Kierkegaard, a trenchant analysis of suicide, and penetrating reflections on the mysteries of hysteria, synesthesia, memory and space, and the philosophical dilemmas of fiction. Book jacket.

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.

Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I Loved and Booker Prize-longlisted The Blazing World.

"While speaking at a memorial event for her father, the novelist Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Was it triggered by nerves, emotion - or something else entirely?"--Back cover

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.

Includes study guide and interview with the author.

Fresh from Minnesota and hungry for all New York has to offer, twenty-three-year-old S.H. embarks on a year that proves both exhilarating and frightening - from bruising encounters with men to the increasingly ominous monologues of the woman next door. Forty years on, those pivotal months come back to vibrant life when S.H. discovers the notebook in which she recorded her adventures alongside drafts of a novel. Measuring what she remembers against what she wrote, she regards her younger self with curiosity and often amusement. Anger too, for how much has really changed in a world where the female presidential candidate is called an abomination? [amazon.com]

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.

"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.

Mia is forced to reexamine her life when her husband puts their marriage on "pause" after thirty years. She returns to the prairie town of her childhood, and is drawn into the lives of those around her.

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.

Alles beginnt in einem Sommer in Island. Die Nächte sind lang und hell. Siri Hustvedt, 13, liest David Copperfield und weiß, dass sie Schriftstellerin werden will. Mit 14 liest sie Simone de Beauvoir und wird Feministin. Ihre Wissbegier ist schon früh enorm. Mit Anfang zwanzig flieht sie aus der amerikanischen Provinz zum Studium nach New York, wo sie noch heute lebt.
Das Bewegliche, Offene dieser Stadt habe sie immer fasziniert, erzählt Hustvedt der Kulturwissenschaftlerin Elisabeth Bronfen im Sommer 2018. Alles Starre, jedes Dogma hingegen ist ihr fremd – kulturelle Stereotype, patriarchale, sexistische Denkmuster, wie sie im Amerika unter Donald Trump wieder an Popularität gewinnen. Siri Hustvedt sucht das Verbindende, nicht das Trennende, eine Vielfalt der Perspektiven. Das Spiel mit Identitäten, auch mit Geschlechteridentitäten bestimmt ihre Romane, das Zusammenwirken verschiedener wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen ihre essayistischen Texte. Luzide legt Siri Hustvedt dar, dass wahre Denkräume Zwischenräume sind, in denen nicht die Gewissheit regiert, sondern das Sowohl-als-auch.

Gerhard Richter – Overpainted Photographs is a catalogue published on the occasion of the homonymous exhibition at Sies + Höke in 2023. The exhibition presents over 60 Overpainted Photographs by Gerhard Richter dating from the years 1989 to 2018, illuminating this important part of Richter's œuvre. Overpainted Photographs were created by Richter from the late 1980s onwards. Despite their small format, they have a significant status within the artist’s œuvre: like no other group of works, they embody the interface between the representation of photographic image content and abstract painting. Through photography, a representational motif is conveyed pictorially, while at the same time an abstract colour matter is applied to the surface. These two levels of reality appear as an interlocking unity and enter into a close, tension-filled and subtle connection. Across 304 pages, this monographic catalogue features reproductions of the exhibited works with a particular focus on illuminating their fine details. The catalogue includes a reprinted essay by Siri Hustvedt as well as new texts by Dietmar Elger and Mark Godfrey.

Was ist der Verstand? Wie unterscheidet er sich vom Körper? In ihrem Essay nimmt sich Siri Hustvedt das uralte, noch immer nicht gelöste Geist-Körper-Problem vor und macht deutlich, wie sehr die unterschiedlichen Antworten auf diese Frage tiefgreifende Bedeutung für unser Verständnis von uns selbst haben. Mit ihrem multidisziplinären Zugang zeigt Hustvedt, wie sehr ungerechtfertigte Annahmen über Körper und Geist das Denken der Neurowissenschaftler, Genetiker, Psychiater, Evolutionspsychologen und der Forscher zur Künstlichen Intelligenz verzerrt und verwirrt hat. Sie führt den Leser in körperintegrierende Theorien von Bewusstsein ein, die die aktuelle Debatte über Verstand und Körper verändern - betont aber, dass keine Idee unantastbar ist. «Hier münden Hustvedts literarisches Werk und ihre wissenschaftlichen und philosophischen Essays in eine ganz eigene Variante poetischer Gelehrsamkeit.» SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG

Siri Hustvedt hat sich mit ihren Romanen als Autorin spannender und moderner Literatur einen Namen gemacht. In «Nicht hier, nicht dort» sind erstmals ihre essayistischen Schriften versammelt. Der Titel bezieht sich auf ihre geographische Herkunft als Tochter norwegischer Einwanderer und auf ihren künstlerischen Standpunkt als Beobachterin: die Fiktion als Zwilling der Erinnerung, angesiedelt zwischen der realen und der gefühlten Welt. Die Sprache als Mittlerin zwischen diesen Welten steht im Mittelpunkt von Hustvedts Betrachtungen zu Literatur und bildender Kunst. Sie erschließt ein komplexes System von Zeichen und Symbolen, deren Struktur und Bedeutung sowohl in unserem Bewusstsein als auch außerhalb von uns angelegt sind. Hustvedt beleuchtet, wie der künstlerische Schaffensprozess zu Erkenntnis führt, anhand von Beispielen wie Vermeers «Annunziata» und F. Scott Fitzgeralds «Gatsby». Zudem untersucht sie in einem Essay den puritanischen Dirigismus, mit dem US-amerikanische Institutionen die Sexualität regulieren wollen, und erforscht das Feld der Annäherung, in dem jeder erotische Kontakt beginnt. Wie in ihren Romanen verweben sich private Biographie und öffentliches Werk, was diesem Buch einen besonderen Wert verleiht. Es bietet Einblick in ihre Arbeit und ihr Leben und unterhält auf hohem Niveau.

Siri Hustvedts nye roman er en fortelling om to familier som møter sorgen, og om hvordan de lever seg gjennom den. Hovedpersonene er kunstnere og intellektuelle, og vi følger dem gjennom mer enn to tiår i New Yorks Soho, der de bor i samme hus i hver sin etasje. Begge parene får en sønn. De er jevngamle og alltid sammen. Tilsynelatende lever de familiene i en og balanse mellom foreldrenes intellektuelle og kunstneriske virksomhet. Så rammer tragedien med full tyngde. Den ene av guttene dør i en drukningsulykke. Forholdet mellom foreldrene forvitrer, og de to kapsler seg inn og flykter inn i sin "voksne" virksomhet. I etasjen over er det duket for enda en sorg. Sønnen her viser å være et destruktivt menneske som lyver og manipulerer langt mer enn normalt. Etter hvert blir sammenhengen tydelig mellom de menneskelige tragediene boken skildrer og den kunstkritikk og historieskrivning de voksne arbeider med. To av Hustvedts bøker er tidligere utgitt på norsk, bl.a. ?Lily Dahls fortryllelse? (1997).