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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 través de la exquisita prosa de Siri Hustvedt.

Reprenent l'angoixa soterrada de les seves obres anteriors, l'autora explora els secrets que marquen les vides d'Erik Davidsen i la seva germana Inga. Tot just despres de la mort del seu pare, a traves dels diaris que va escriure, els dos germans van descobrint histories que ell havia mantingut amagades. Alhora, ambdos s'embranquen en processos personals dins les seves propies vides: l'Inga descobreix les infidelitats del seu marit mort i l'Erik s'enamora perdudament de la seva nova vena, una noia amb una filla de cinc anys que amaga, ella tambe, un secret terrible que posara en perill la vida de tots tres.a

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.

The ardent exchange of ideas underlies all manner of passionate action in Hustvedt's third novel (after The Enchantment of Lily Dahl), a dark tale of two intertwined New York families. "What is memory's perspective? Does the man revise the boy's view or is the imprint relatively static, a vestige of what was once intimately known?" So muses Columbia University art historian Leo Hertzberg as he recalls the love affair between artist Bill ("Seeing is flux") Wechsler and his model/second wife, Violet, whom Leo secretly loves almost as much as his own wife, Erica. Leo and Bill become friends when Leo buys a huge portrait of Violet, the first painting Bill has ever sold, and the two are inseparable ever after. Erica and Bill's first wife, Lucille, give birth to sons in the same year and, soon afterward, the Wechslers buy a loft in the same SoHo building. When the boys are four, Bill and Lucille are divorced, and Bill marries Violet. Linked by their love of art and language (Erica is an English professor and Violet a Ph.D. student with a specialty in 19th-century forms of madness), the two couples talk insatiably about art and life, celebrating triumphs and weathering tragedy together. In its second half, the novel shifts into the terrain of the psychological thriller, as Bill and Lucille's son, Mark, a dangerously charming boy, grows up and slips into a sinister New York club scene. So solid and complex are Hustvedt's characters that the change in pace is effortlessly effected-the plot developments are the natural extension of the author's meticulous examination of relationships and motives. In considering Violet, Leo observes, "Unlike most intellectuals, [she] didn't distinguish between the cerebral and the physical." The same distinctions are blurred in this gripping, seductive novel, a breakout work for Hustvedt.-- didn't distinguish between the cerebral and the physical." The same distinctions are blurred in this gripping, seductive novel, a breakout work for Hustvedt.

Iris Vegan, a young, impoverished graduate student from the Midwest, finds herself entangled with four powerful but threatening characters as she tries to adjust to life in New York City. Mr. Morning, an inscrutable urban recluse, employs Iris to tape-record verbal descriptions of objects that belonged to a murder victim. George, a photographer, takes an eerie portrait of Iris, which then acquires a strange life of its own, appearing and disappearing without warning around the city. After a series of blinding migraines, Iris ends up in a hospital room with Mrs. O., a woman who has lost her mind and memory to a stroke, but who nevertheless retains both the strength and energy to torment her fellow patient. And finally, there is Professor Rose, Iris's teacher and eventually her lover. While working with him on the translation of a German novella called "The Brutal Boy," she discovers in its protagonist, Klaus, a vehicle for her own transformation and ventures out into the city again--this time dressed as a man.

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.

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. Ultimately, her quest to understand her own mysterious troubles becomes "a brilliant illumination for us all" (George Makari, author of Revolution in Mind).

«Siri Hustvedt, eine unserer herausragenden Schriftstellerinnen, gehört seit langem zu den brillantesten Erforschern von Gehirn und Geist. Kürzlich jedoch wandte sie ihr Forschungsinteresse sich selbst zu: Knapp drei Jahre nach dem Tod ihres Vaters, während einer Gedenkrede auf ihn, fand sie sich plötzlich von Konvulsionen geschüttelt. War das Hysterie, eine Übertragung, ein zufälliger epileptischer Anfall? Die zitternde Frau - provokant und amüsant, umfassend und niemals abgehoben - erzählt von ihren Bemühungen um eine Antwort darauf. So entsteht eine außergewöhnliche Doppelgeschichte: zum einen die ihrer verschlungenen Erkenntnissuche, zum anderen die der großen Fragen, die sich der Neuropsychiatrie heute stellen. Siri Hustvedts kluges Buch verstärkt unser Erstaunen über das Zusammenspiel von Körper und Geist.» Oliver Sacks «Siri Hustvedt beweist trotz oder gerade angesichts des autobiographischen Themas einmal mehr, was für eine großartige Erzählerin sie ist.» Süddeutsche Zeitung

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.