Bøger af 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.

Minder om fremtiden er historien om den unge forfatterspire S.H. og hendes første år i New York i slutningen af 1970'erne. S.H. kender ikke en sjæl i storbyen. Sulten efter selskab indleder hun en lang række tilfældige forhold - og om natten lytter hun igennem de papirtynde vægge i sin Manhattan-lejlighed til sin mystiske nabo Lucys bizarre og ildevarslende monologer. Hun noterer de brudstykker, hun kan høre, i en notesbog - indtil en skæbnesvanger aften, hvor Lucy braser ind i S.H.s lejlighed på en redningsmission. Fyrre år senere genfinder S.H. sin gamle notesbog - og det første udkast til en aldrig færdiggjort roman. S.H. er i mellemtiden blevet en etableret forfatter, og ved at sammenstille teksterne fra hendes ungdom med hendes ældre jeg tegnes et mangefacetteret billede af en kvinde gennem fire årtier. Minder om fremtiden samler mange af de temaer, Hustvedt har behandlet igennem sit forfatterskab: spørgsmål om køn, erindring, erkendelsens luner, de tvetydige grænser mellem fornuft og vanvid - og vores primale drifter som sex, kærlighed, sult og raseri.

I sin nye essaysamling kombinerer Siri Hustvedt stærke personlige erindringer om sin familie med sit altid skarpe feministiske mindset. Hun beskrives som det 21. århundredes Virginia Woolf af the Literary Review, og den Man Booker-longlistede forfatter udstiller sit intellekt og sin store spændvidde på tværs af videnskabelige discipliner i denne samling, der bevæger sig ubesværet mellem essays om hendes mor, hendes bedstemor og hendes datter, til kunstner-mødre som Jane Austen, Emily Brontë og Louise Bourgeois. Hun beskriver og analyserer det kvindelige, skabt i en kultur, hvor kvindehad og fantasier om den mandlige autoritet er absolut fremherskende.Mødre, fædre og andre er en bevægende, kraftfuld og ofte ganske morsom bog, og den stiller relevante spørgsmål om den kærlighed og det had, der bor i familien, menneskers fordomme og ondskab og den helende kraft, man kan finde i kunsten.

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 romanerne Den flammende verden og Minder om fremtidenSamlingen 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.

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.

New Yorker-forfatteren Mia har haft et alvorligt sammenbrud efter at hendes mand gennem 30 år, Boris, vil have en pause. "Pausen" viser sig at være en 20 år yngre fransk kollega. For at få det hele på afstand tager Mia til sin hjemby Bonden i Minnesota, hvor hendes mor stadig bor. Sådan begynder Mias sommer uden mænd. Hun raser og sørger over sit tab, men bliver også involveret i livet omkring sig. Hun møder sin mors jævnaldrende veninder og indser, at livsgnist, humor og vid ikke forsvinder med alderen. Hun knytter sig til sin unge nabo og hendes to små børn. Og hun bliver ansat som lærer på et skriveværksted for teenagepiger og må håndtere deres følsomhed og mobberier, men også spæde og nysgerrige start på voksenlivet. Sommeren uden mænd tegner et stærkt billede af tre generationer af kvinder, der alle kæmper med ensomhed, tab og sexualitet."... stor romankunst ... man føler sig godt underholdt og bliver klogere undervejs. Både på livet og på kvinden"- Berlingske (fem stjerner)"En underholdende og besnærende roman, der er let at læse, men svær at glemme"- Information"... rummer så meget af en kvindes indre følelses- og tankeliv, at man bliver dybt berørt og inviteret til at tænke over, hvad man selv kommer fra, står i og er på vej til"- IN (fem stjerner)"... som at få en livsklog mentor på bogform"- Weekendavisen"En smuk og lidenskabelig fortælling i allerbedste Hustvedt-stil"- Litteratursiden.dk

A revealing and unusal memoir by the bestselling author of What I Loved, an account of her search for the source of her mysterious nervous disorder which offers a fascinating exploration of the mind and its connection with the body 'provocative but often funny, encyclopedic but down to earth' Oliver Sacks.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.

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.

Forfatterens personlige beretning om sit forsøg på at få stillet en diagnose på sine ukontrollable rystelser, der starter under en mindetale, hun holder for sin afdøde far. Sygehistorien iblandes en neurovidenskabelig, litterær og filosofisk analyse af forholdet mellem krop og sind og af hvordan sygdom kan gå ind i vores identitetsopfattelse.

En intellektuel detektivhistorie i kunstverdenen.Med udgangspunkt i genopdagelsen af kunstneren Harriet Burdens værker, der ingen opmærksomhed fik, mens hun var i live, men som efter hendes død opnåede anerkendelse, beskrives og behandles temaer som identitet, køn, kunst og kvindelighed.Gennem notebøger, dagbøger, magasiner og avisartikler tager Harriets karakter form, i takt med at hun kæmper for at finde sin plads i en mandsdomineret kunstverden, alt imens hun skal bevare sin egen identitet.Harriet er en vidunderlig skabning - besværlig, mærkelig, følsom, spændende, super intelligent - ja, nærmest et geni - og denne enestående roman af Siri Hustvedt er lige så fascinerende og vedkommende, som de figurer, hun har skabt.

I sin nye essaysamling kombinerer Siri Hustvedt sine personlige erindringer om familie, slægt og moderskab med sin brede viden om kunst og videnskab – overalt tilsat det altid skarpe feministiske mindset. I bogens 19 essays bevæger Siri Hustvedt sig ubesværet fra historier om sin mor, sin bedstemor og sin datter til refleksioner over at være kvinde og kvindelige oplevelser til analyse af kunstnere, hun holder af: Jane Austen, Emily Brontë og Louise Bourgeois. ”Mødre, fædre og andre” er en klog og kraftfuld bog, der stiller relevante spørgsmål til tiden, til vores fordomme, og den er en stor hyldest til den lindrende kraft, vi finder i kunsten. Udgivelsen er en storskrift-udgave til svagsynede i serien MAGNUMBØGER Lindhardt og Ringhof.

"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, repeatedly upending received ideas and cultural truisms." --

Ved siden af sin skønlitterære produktion har Siri Hustvedt gennem årene skrevet en lang række essays. Nu samles to af værkerne, En bøn for Eros og At leve, at tænke, at se, i ét bind. At leve, at tænke, at se består af 32 essays skrevet mellem 2006 og 2011, hvori forfatteren plukker og samler viden og indsigter fra filosofien, neurovidenskaben, psykologien, psykoanalysen og litteraturen. En bøn for Eros består af en række selvbiografiske og kritiske essays om forfattere og kunsten at skrive, og hvad enten det handler om opvæksten i Minnisota eller om stor romankunst, er Hustvedt en mester til på eleganteste vis at kombinere intellekt, følelse, vid og lidenskab i sine altid vedkommende essays.

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.

Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in this ';profound' (Publishers Weekly, starred review) new essay collection from Siri Hustvedt, an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience, including boundaries we usually take for grantedbetween ourselves and others, nature and nurture, viewer and artworkwhich turn out to be far less stable than we imagine.Described as ';a 21st-century Virginia Woolf' in the Literary Review (UK), Man Booker longlisted Hustvedt displays her expansive intellect and interdisciplinary knowledge in this collection that moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to artistic mothers, Jane Austen, Emily Bront, and Lousie Bourgeois, to the broader meanings of maternal in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority. Mothers, Fathers, and Others is a polymath's journey into urgent questions about familial love and hate, human prejudice and cruelty, and the transformative power of art. This moving, fierce, and often funny book is finally about the fact that being alive means being in states of constant, dynamic exchange with what is around us, and that the impulse to draw hard and fast conceptual borders where none exist carries serious theoretical and political dangers.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Insomnia at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden in 2017. Participating artists included: Kate Cooper, Leif Elggren, Julia Feyrer & Tamara Henderson, Carsten Höller, Katarina Löfström and Rafaël Rozendaal.

In this unique neurological memoir Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious conditionWhile speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Despite her flapping arms and shaking legs, she continued to speak clearly and was able to finish her speech. It was as if she had suddenly become two people: a calm orator and a shuddering wreck. Then the seizures happened again and again. The Shaking Woman tracks Hustvedt's search for a diagnosis, one that takes her inside the thought processes of several scientific disciplines, each one of which offers a distinct perspective on her paroxysms but no ready solution. In the process, she finds herself entangled in fundamental questions: What is the relationship between brain and mind? How do we remember? What is the self? During her investigations, Hustvedt joins a discussion group in which neurologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and brain scientists trade ideas to develop a new field: neuropsychoanalysis. She volunteers as a writing teacher for psychiatric in-patients at the Payne Whitney clinic in New York City and unearths precedents in medical history that illuminate the origins of and shifts in our theories about the mind-body problem. In The Shaking Woman, Hustvedt synthesizes her experience and research into a compelling mystery: Who is the shaking woman? In the end, the story she tells becomes, in the words of George Makari, author ofRevolution in Mind, "a brilliant illumination for us all."