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Cuando Erik Davidsen y su hermana Inga encuentran una inquietante nota de una mujer desconocida entre los documentos de su padre recientemente fallecido, sospechan de su doble vida y que ambos pueden estar implicados en una misteriosa muerte. The Sorrows of an American narra la historia de la familia Davidsen y pone de manifiesto sus dolores ocultos y un mosaico extraordinario de secretos e historias a traves de la exquisita prosa de Siri Hustvedt.

My sister called it ''the year of secrets,'' but when I look back on it now, I''ve come to understand that it was a time not of what was there, but of what wasn''t. ''It is a rare writer who can both rouse the mind and grip the heart, and all the while provide the sensuous delights of image and language!a compelling narrative in which the past haunts the present of characters so vividly real they become members of your intimate circle and erupt in your dreams! almost impossible to put down, and even harder not to re-read'' Lisa Appignanesi, Independent ''Wonderful'' Vik Groskop, Observer ''Subtle and complex'' Tom Deveson, Sunday Times ''Beautifully thought through, deeply serious and enormously intelligent'' Jane Smiley, Guardian

In this unique neurological memoir Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition While 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 of Revolution in Mind, a brilliant illumination for us all.

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.

La de Siri Hustvedt es una poesía hecha de lugares cotidianos, de instantáneas, de rostros y recuerdos que cobran sentido a través de una sintaxis que entablan por su cuenta los objetos. Los poemas de Leer para ti son inventarios de pequeños universos, versos que nacen de una retina acostumbrada a ensoñarse en la contemplacion de la pintura. Hay uno que habla de una carta olvidada en un taxi. No se me ocurre una metafora mejor para este libro. El mundo que se recupera en el podria haberse perdido para siempre, pero no ha sido asi. Es una carta que ha llegado inopinadamente hasta tus manos. Se escribio para ti sin saber que existias.Eduardo Lago

Seleccionado para el MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 La artista Harriet Burden, furioso por la falta de atención que le dedica el mundo del arte en NY, lleva a cabo un experimento: esconde su identidad detrás de tres nombres masculinos en una serie de exposiciones. Su exito parece probar su postura, pero hay un aguijon en la cola - cuando se desenmascara a si misma, no todo el mundo la cree. Entonces su ultimo de los colaboradores se encuentra con un final extraño. En este fascinante tour de force, la historia de Burden emerge despues de su muerte a traves de una variedad de fuentes, incluyendo sus diarios (no del todo fiables) y los testimonios de sus hijos, amante y un amigo querido. Cada version es diferente, sin embargo, y los misterios se multiplican

Wie sehen, erinnern und fuhlen wir? Wie interagieren wir mit anderen Menschen? Was heit es, zu schlafen, zu traumen oder zu sprechen? Was ist das Selbst?Siri Hustvedt, die Autorin der Bestseller Die zitternde Frau und Der Sommer ohne Manner, versammelt hier 32 Essays, entstanden zwischen 2006 und 2011. Sie alle sind, in ihren eigenen Worten, verbunden durch eine lebenslange Neugier auf das, was es heit, ein Mensch zu sein. Thematisch decken sie das gesamte Spektrum von Hustvedts vielfaltigen Interessen ab: von der Kunsttheorie uber die Literatur und Philosophie, die Psychologie und Psychoanalyse bis hin zu den Neurowissenschaften. Und doch tauchen immer wieder ahnliche Fragen auf die Grundfragen unseres Menschseins.Hustvedts einzigartige Synthese des Wissens aus vielen Fachgebieten belebt den dringend notigen Dialog zwischen den Geistes- und den Naturwissenschaften. Ihre Essays zeigen sie als scharfsinnige Betrachterin unserer Welt und auf der Hohe ihres Schaffens.

Whether her subject is growing up in Minnesota, cross-dressing, or the novel, Hustvedt's nonfiction, like her fiction, defies easy categorization, elegantly combining intellect, emotion, wit, and passion. With a light touch and consummate clarity, she undresses the cultural prejudices that veil both literature and life and explores the multiple personalities that inevitably inhabit a writer's mind. Is it possible for a woman in the twentieth century to endorse the corset, and at the same time approach with authority what it is like to be a man? Hustvedt does. Writing with rigorous honesty about her own divided self, and how this has shaped her as a writer, she also approaches the works of others--Fitzgerald, Dickens, and Henry James--with revelatory insight, and a practitioner's understanding of their art.

"And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at the end of The Awful Truth? There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren't there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if you ask me. A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment." Mia Fredrickson, the wry, vituperative, tragic comic, poet narrator of The Summer Without Men, has been forced to reexamine her own life. One day, out of the blue, after thirty years of marriage, Mia's husband, a renowned neuroscientist, asks her for a "pause." This abrupt request sends her reeling and lands her in a psychiatric ward. The June following Mia's release from the hospital, she returns to the prairie town of her childhood, where her mother lives in an old people's home. Alone in a rented house, she rages and fumes and bemoans her sorry fate. Slowly, however, she is drawn into the lives of those around her—her mother and her close friends,"the Five Swans," and her young neighbor with two small children and a loud angry husband—and the adolescent girls in her poetry workshop whose scheming and petty cruelty carry a threat all their own. From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved comes a provocative, witty, and revelatory novel about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old question of sameness and difference between the sexes.

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.

Pocos días después del funeral del padre, Erik Davidsen y su hermana Inga encuentran entre los papeles del muerto una breve nota del año 1937 que alude a una tragedia, quizá un asesinato. Erik es psicoanalista, un hombre que escucha relatos. Inga es escritora, y en su ultimo libro habla de los recuerdos que son vueltos a imaginar en palabras. A partir de entonces, los hermanos intentan reconstruir la historia de su familia de emigrantes noruegos. Pero Inga y Erik tambien deben enfrentarse a sus propios secretos y relatos. Erik se ha divorciado hace poco tiempo, y la soledad lo ha convertido en alguien que jamas imagino ser. Inga, que estuvo casada con un escritor de culto, muerto cinco años antes, tiene que proteger a su hija, y protegerse a si misma, del acoso de un vengativo periodista. O, como dice ella, tiene que reescribir su propia historia de principio a fin... Uno de los libros mas profundos que he leido (Ron Charles, The Washington Post); La mejor novela americana de este año. Es Updike con tacones altos; no se la pierdan (Melissa Katsoulis, The Telegraph).

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.