Новинки Сири Хустведт

This is the story of two men who first become friends in 1970s New York, of the women in their lives, and of their sons, born the same year. Both Leo Hertzberg, an art historian, and Bill Weschler, a painter, are cultured, decent men, but neither is equipped to deal with what happens to their children Leo s son drowns when he s 12, while Bill s son Mark grows up to be a delinquent, and the acolyte of a sinister, guru-like artist who spawns murder in his wake. Spanning the hedonism of the eighties and the chill-out nineties, this multi-layered novel combines a plot of mounting menace with a deeply moving account of familial relationships and a superbly observed portrait of an artist, set against the backdrop of a society reaching new depths of depravity in its frenetic quest for the next fashion, drug and thrill.

A compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prize-winning novelist Siri Hustvedt, the acclaimed author of "The Blazing World" and "What I Loved."

Siri Hustvedt has always been fascinated by biology and how human perception works. She is a lover of art, the humanities, and the sciences. She is a novelist and a feminist. Her lively, lucid essays in "A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women" begin to make some sense of those plural perspectives.

Divided into three parts, the first section, “A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women,” investigates the perceptual and gender biases that affect how we judge art, literature, and the world in general. Among the legendary figures considered are Picasso, De Kooning, Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Susan Sontag, Robert Mapplethorpe, the Guerrilla Girls, and Karl Ove Knausgaard.

The second part, “The Delusions of Certainty,” is about the age-old mind/body problem that has haunted Western philosophy since the Greeks. Hustvedt explains the relationship between the mental and the physical realms, showing what lies beyond the argument—desire, belief, and the imagination.

The final section, “What Are We? Lectures on the Human Condition,” discusses neurological disorders and the mysteries of hysteria. Drawing on research in sociology, neurobiology, history, genetics, statistics, psychology, and psychiatry, this section also contains a profound and powerful consideration of suicide.

There has been much talk about building a beautiful bridge across the chasm that separates the sciences and the humanities. At the moment, we have only a wobbly walkway, but Hustvedt is encouraged by the travelers making their way across it in both directions. "A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Womeny is an insightful account of the journeys back and forth.

Siri Hustvedt kehrt in diesem Roman in die New Yorker Kunstwelt aus ihrem berühmtesten Buch "Was ich liebte" zurück. "Die gleißende Welt" ist der Titel eines utopischen Romans von Margaret Cavendish, die im 17. Jahrhundert als eine der ersten Frauen überhaupt unter ihrem eigenen Namen publizierte. Als frühe Universalgelehrte ist sie Vorbild und Idol von Harriett Burden, der Witwe eines einflussreichen New Yorker Galeristen. Nach dessen vorzeitigem Tod in den siebziger Jahren beginnt Harriett - in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung nichts als die Frau an der Seite des berühmten Mannes, aber in Wahrheit hochtalentiert - ein heimliches Experiment: eine Karriere als Installationskünstlerin, die sich hinter dem angeblichen Werk dreier männlicher "Masken" verbirgt, das in Wahrheit sie selbst erschaffen hat. Doch der Faustische Handel schlägt fehl - einer dieser Maskenmänner, selbst ein bekannter Künstler, durchkreuzt ihr Rollenspiel und setzt sein eigenes dagegen, und es kommt zum Kampf zweier großer Geister. Das Buch ist ein Konzert widerstreitender Stimmen, eine polyphone Tour de Force über die Macht von Vorurteilen, Begierde, Geld und Ruhm. Es versammelt alle großen Themen Siri Hustvedts aus Literatur, Kunst, Psychologie und Naturwissenschaften. Ein mutiges, schillerndes Meisterstück.

The 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.

A brilliant, provocative novel about an artist who, after years of being ignored by the art world, conducts an experiment: she conceals her female identity behind three male fronts.

Presented as a collection of texts, edited and introduced by a scholar years after the artist's death, the book unfolds through extracts from Burden's notebooks and conflicting accounts from others about her life and work. Even after she steps forward to reveal herself as the force behind three solo shows, there are those who doubt she is responsible for the last exhibition, initially credited to the acclaimed artist Rune. No one doubts the two artists were involved with each other. According to Burden's journals, she and Rune found themselves locked in a charged and dangerous psychological game that ended with the man's bizarre death.

From one of the most ambitious and internationally celebrated writers of her generation, Hustvedt's The Blazing World is a polyphonic tour de force. It is also an intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle that addresses the shaping influences of prejudice, money, fame, and desire on what we see in one another. Emotionally intense, intellectually rigorous, ironic, and playful, this is a book you won't be able to put down.

Artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from the New York art establishment, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts who exhibit her work as their own. And yet, even after she has unmasked herself, there are those who refuse to believe she is the woman behind the men.
Presented as a collection of texts compiled by a scholar years after Burden's death, the story unfolds through extracts from her notebooks, reviews and articles, as well as testimonies from her children, her lover, a dear friend, and others more distantly connected to her. Each account is different, however, and the mysteries multiply. One thing is clear: Burden's involvement with the last of her "masks" turned into a dangerous psychological game that ended with the man's bizarre death.
This is a polyphonic tour de force from the internationally acclaimed author of What I Loved, an intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle that explores the way prejudice, fame, money and desire influence our perceptions of one another. Emotionally intense, intellectually rigorous, ironic and playful, THE BLAZING WORLD is as gripping as it is thought-provoking.

Cuando Boris Izcovich dijo la palabra «pausa», Mia Fredricksen, de cincuenta y cinco años, que llevaba casada treinta años con Boris, enloqueció. Porque lo que deseaba su marido era una pausa en su matrimonio, después de treinta años sin adulterios por parte de ninguna de las partes –aunque parezca increíble–, una hija encantadora que iniciaba su carrera de actriz y una relación entre ellos que había ido evolucionando desde el ardor guerrero de los primeros tiempos a la simbiosis casi telepática de los últimos. Hay que decir que la «pausa» de Boris es francesa, compañera de trabajo en el laboratorio –ambos son neurocientíficos–, joven y con buenas tetas. Pero la locura de Mia no fue más que una breve psicosis reactiva, y a la semana y media la dejaron marchar de la clínica donde había sido internada. Y éstos son los prolegómenos del verano en que Mia regresa a Bonden, la ciudad de su infancia, donde aún vive su madre en una residencia para ancianas activas e independientes. Será un verano rabioso en lo personal y reflexivo en lo intelectual, porque Mia es poeta, con varios libros publicados. Alquila una casa, se relaciona con sus vecinos, una joven recién casada con dos niños y un marido que despierta en Mia sospechas de maltrato, y visita cada día a su madre, de más de ochenta años, y a su grupo de amigas, «los Cisnes», que son cinco –la mayor ya ha pasado los cien años y morirá en el curso del verano– y se mantienen activas, vivas e imbatibles. Y recupera los recuerdos de su infancia, y descubre algunos secretos de la femineidad de otras generaciones, como los tapices que borda en secreto una de los Cisnes, que esconden en bolsillos y pliegues ocultos escenas eróticas, o blasfemas, o acres burlas al mundo. Mia también dirige un taller de poesía con un grupo de estudiantes en el instituto de Bonden. Y con la producción literaria de las adolescentes, la eclosión de su femineidad y sus crueles conspiraciones, las historias y las vidas de los viejos Cisnes y los incidentes del joven matrimonio, más su propia vida, Mia urde esta veloz, brillante comedia feminista, de inesperado final...

Artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from the New York art establishment, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts who exhibit her work as their own. And yet, even after she has unmasked herself, there are those who refuse to believe she is the woman behind the men.

Presented as a collection of texts compiled by a scholar years after Burden's death, the story unfolds through extracts from her notebooks, reviews and articles, as well as testimonies from her children, her lover, a dear friend, and others more distantly connected to her. Each account is different, however, and the mysteries multiply. One thing is clear: Burden's involvement with the last of her 'masks' turned into a dangerous psychological game that ended with the man's bizarre death.

This is a polyphonic tour de force from the internationally acclaimed author of What I Loved, an intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle that explores the way prejudice, fame, money and desire influence our perceptions of one another. Emotionally intense, intellectually rigorous, ironic and playful, The Blazing World is as gripping as it is thought-provoking.

Kui luuletaja Mia Fredrickseni abikaasa palub parast 30 aastat kestnud abielu pausi, kuna tal on suhe kauni prantslannast kolleegiga, murdub Mia vaim. Hullumeelsus annab maad raevule, mida naine soidab maandama oma lapsepolvekoju. Jark-jargult laseb Mia end tommata teiste eludesse: eaka ema hakkajad sobrannad, nooruke kahe lapse ema naabermajast, salalikud teismelised tudrukud tema luulekursuselt. Meesteta suve lopuks teab Mia, mille nimel tasub voidelda – ja kelle maaratud tingimustel. „Meesteta suvi“ on provokatiivne ja intelligentne tragikomoodia naistest ja tudrukutest, armastusest ja abielust ning igipolisest sugudevahelisest voitlusest. Norra juurtega USA kirjaniku ja esseisti Siri Hustvedti (s 1955) viiest romaanist on eesti keeles seni ilmunud „Pimesi“ (2001). Hustvedt elab koos kirjanikust abikaasa Paul Austeriga New Yorgis. Tema teoseid on tolgitud 29 keelde.

Сири Хустведт - одна из самых заметных фигур в современной американской литературе: романистка, поэтесса, влиятельный эссеист и литературовед, а кроме того - на протяжении без малого тридцати лет жена и муза другого известного прозаика, Пола Остера. "Что я любил" - третий и, по оценкам критики, наиболее совершенный из ее романов. Нью-йоркский профессор-искусствовед Лео Герцберг вспоминает свою жизнь и многолетнюю дружбу с художником Биллом Векслером. Любовные увлечения, браки, разводы, подрастающие дети и трагические события, полностью меняющие привычный ход жизни, - энергичное действие в романе Хустведт гармонично уживается с проникновенной лирикой и глубокими рассуждениями об искусстве, психологии и об извечном конфликте отцов и детей. Виртуозно балансируя на грани между триллером и философским романом, писательница создает многомерное и многоуровневое полотно, равно привлекательное как для "наивного" читателя, так и для любителя интеллектуальной прозы.