Bøker av 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.

In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a New York gallery. He buys the work, tracks down its creator, Bill Weschler, and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. This is the story of their intense and trouble relationship, of the women in their lives and their work, of art and hysteria, love and seduction and their sons - born the same year but whose lives take very different paths.

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 point, but there's a sting in the tail - when she unmasks herself, not everyone believes her. Then her last collaborator meets a bizarre end. In this mesmerising tour de force, Burden's story emerges after her death through a variety of sources, including her (not entirely reliable) journals and the testimonies of her children, lover and a dear friend. Each account is different, however, and the mysteries multiply.

After their father's funeral, Erik and Inga Davidsen find a cryptic letter from an unknown woman among his papers, dating from his adolescence in rural Minnesota during the Depression. Returning to his psychiatric practice in New York, Erik sets about reading his father's memoir, hoping to discover the man he never fully understood. At the same time, another woman enters Erik's lonely, divorced life - a beautiful Jamaican who moves into his garden flat with her small daughter. As Erik gets drawn into the cat-and-mouse tactics of someone who appears to be stalking her, he finds out that his sister Inga is also being threatened, by a journalist in possession of a wounding secret from her past. A multi-layered novel that probes the mysteries of the heart and mind, THE SORROWS OF AN AMERICAN is compulsive, thought-provoking and profoundly affecting.

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 stunning collection of essays by the author of WHAT I LOVED, in which she addresses many of the themes explored in her novels - identity, sexual attraction, relationships, family, mental illness, the power of the imagination, a sense of belonging and mortality. In three cases, she focuses on the novels of other writers - Dickens, James and Fitzgerald. She also refers to her own novels, affording an unusual insight into their creation. Whatever her topic, her approach is unaffected, intimate and conversational, inviting us both to share her thoughts and reflect on our own views and ideas.

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.

Forfatteren forteller her om sine skjelvetokter. Første gang dette rammer henne står hun på talerstolen og skal holde en minnetale for sin avdøde far. I en blanding av selvbiografi, personlig essay og vitenskapelig undersøkelse leter hun i boka etter historiene bak anfallene. Hun tar både utgangspunkt i personlige erfaringer og det mer allmennmenneskelige.

Hva er vi? inneholder ni essays. Tematikken spenner vidt, fra «Hvorfor den historien og ikke en annen?» til «Å huske i kunsten: det horisontale og det vertikale», til «Selvmord og selvbevissthetens drama» og «Jeg gråt i fire år, og da jeg holdt opp, var jeg blind». Alle essayene er publisert tidligere i svært forskjellige sammenhenger. Samlingen viser nye og interessante sider ved det spørsmålet som går igjen i alt Siri Hustvedt skriver: Hva vil det si å være et menneske? Hva er vi?Foredrag om menneskets vilkår er tredje del av den kritikerroste essaysamlingen Kvinne ser på menn som ser på kvinner som utkom i sin helhet i USA i 2016. Første del, Kvinne ser på menn som ser på kvinner, utkom på norsk i 2017. Andre del, På sviktende grunn, utkom på norsk i 2018.

Den prisbelønte forfatteren og feministen Siri Hustvedt retter sitt briljante og kritiske blikk mot nevropsykologiens metafysiske spørsmål i denne lovpriste samlingen. Hun viser hvordan den eviggyldige, uløste kropp-sinn-problematikken har formet - og ofte fordreid og forvirret - samtidens oppfatninger av nevrovitenskap, genetikk, kunstig intelligens og evolusjonspsykologi. Dette er en unik bok fra en unik forfatter som tar opp spørsmålet om hva det vil si å være et menneske.

Siri Hustvedt har et stort og beundrende publikum, og hennes bøker er oversatt til en rekke språk. Nå er hun aktuell med en ny samling essays, som handler om kunst, kjønnskamp og identitet. De elleve livlige essayene i samlingen bærer preg av den karakteristiske personlige grunntonen vi finner i alt Hustvedt skriver, og vi kjenner igjen forfatterens lidenskap for kunst, humaniora og vitenskap. Essayene ble opprinnelig skrevet mellom 2011 og 2015, flere av dem på oppdrag. Alle er publisert tidligere i svært forskjellige sammenhenger; alt fra lettere bidrag til avisspalter, bidrag til vektige utstillingskataloger og dyptpløyende forelesninger. «Essayene kan stort sett leses av et bredt publikum. Tonen varierer mellom det lette og det alvorlige, men det trengs ingen spesielle kunnskaper for å lese dem,» skriver Hustvedt selv i en introduksjon til samlingen. Hustvedt undersøker hvordan fordommer om kjønn og persepsjon påvirker hvordan vi ser på kunst, litteratur og verden som sådan. Hun skriver om legendariske figurer som Picasso, De Kooning, Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeoisie, Anselm Kiefer, Susan Sontag, Robert Mapplethorpe, The Guerilla Girls og Karl Ove Knausgård - alt sett i lys av forfatterens feministiske ståsted.

Romanen handler om to familier som møter sorgen, og om hvordan de lever seg gjennom den. De to familiene er kunstnere og intellektuelle, og vi følger dem gjennom mer enn 20 år i New Yorks Soho, der de bor i samme hus i hver sin etasje. Begge parene får en sønn. De to guttene er alltid sammen. Så faller alt i grus. En av guttene dør i en drukningsulykke, og den andre ødelegger alt rundt seg, han lyver og manipulerer. De voksnes erkjennelse av tilværelsen kan ikke forberede dem på hvordan livet plutselig omkalfatres når ulykken rammer. Sorgen erstatter kjærligheten. Er da kunsten nok til å fylle livet?

I "Livet, tanken, blikket" samler Siri Hustvedt 32 essays skrevet mellom 2006 og 2011. I disse fascinerende, levende og engasjerende tekstene viser hun hva som ligger bak romanene hennes: En veldig nysgjerrighet på hva hvem vi er og hvordan vi ble slik. Her deler hun sin kunnskap om filosofi, nevrovitenskap, psykologi, psykoanalyse og litteratur. Første del, "Livet", henter sitt stoff fra forfatterens eget liv. I delen "Tanken" utforsker hun temaer som minner, følelser og fantasi. "Blikket" handler om billedkunst. Hustvedts unike syntese av kunnskaper fra mange ulike felt, der hun altså trekker både på erfaringer fra eget liv og fra innsikt hun har fått fra både kunst og vitenskap, gjør at hun med stor troverdighet kan stille det helt store spørsmålet, det som opptar henne mer enn noe annet: Hva betyr det å være menneske?

Den 63 år gamle forfatteren SH finner sin egen dagbok fra det året hun 23 år gammel flyttet til New York, direkte fra Minnesotas prærie. Det ble et skjellsettende år for den unge kvinnen der hun vandret rundt på Manhattan, fattig, sulten og med vid åpne sanser.SH bor i en dårlig leilighet i et slitent strøk. Vegg i vegg bor Lucy Brite, en plaget kvinne. Fortelleren blir besatt av å finne ut hvem Lucy er og hva som er galt.SH er ofte rasende - for ikke å bli sett, å bli tatt for gitt, å bli oversett, å bli fortalt hva som er riktig og galt ¿ for jenter. Dette er, i beste Hustvedt-tradisjon, en feministisk roman. Men den er også full av kjærlighet.

Når Mia Fredricksens mann gjennom 30 år plutselig en dag forteller at han trenger en pause, får Mia først et sammenbrudd, deretter reiser hun hjem til sin mor. Noe motvillig dras hun inn i livene ti menneskene rundt seg, og når sommeren uten menn nærmer seg slutten, er Mia klokere, for hun vet hva hun vil kjempe for og på hvilke premisser.

Siri Hustvedts nye roman er en intellektuell detektivfortelling fra kunstens verden. Det handler om gjenoppdagingen av kunstneren Harriet Burdens verker. Verkene gikk upåaktet hen mens Burden levde, men får gradvis større oppmerksomhet etter hennes død. Identitet, kjønn, feminitet og kunstnerisk eierskap er temaer som undersøkes.Gjennom notatbøker, dagbøker, avis- og magasinartikler trår Harriet stadig tydeligere fram som kvinne og kunstner, der hun kjemper for å finne sin plass i en mannsdominert kunstverden samtidig som hun tviholder på egen identitet.Harriet Burden er en fantastisk figur. Vanskelig, merkelig, følsom, spennende, enormt smart og en enestående kunstner - en karakter like fascinerende og gripende som Hustvedts romaner.

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.

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.

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.