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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.

Un ouvrage aussi exigeant qu'ambitieux qui rassemble diverses conférences prononcées par Siri Hustvedt sur la condition humaine. On y trouvera notamment une puissante lecture de Kierkegaard, une analyse tranchante du suicide, et des reflexions penetrantes sur l'hysterie, la synesthesie, la memoire, l'espace, et les dilemmes philosophiques poses par la fiction.

A provocative, exuberant novel about time, memory, desire, and the imagination from the internationally bestselling and prizewinning author of The Blazing World, Memories of the Future tells the story of a young Midwestern woman's first year in New York City in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious neighbor, Lucy Brite. As she listens to Lucy through the thin walls of her dilapidated building, S.H., aka "Minnesota," transcribes her neighbor's bizarre and increasingly ominous monologues in a notebook, along with sundry other adventures, until one frightening night when Lucy bursts into her apartment on a rescue mission. Forty years later, S.H., now a veteran author, discovers her old notebook, as well as early drafts of a never-completed novel while moving her aging mother from one facility to another. Ingeniously juxtaposing the various texts, S.H. measures what she remembers against what she wrote that year and has since forgotten to create a dialogue between selves across decades. The encounter both collapses time and reframes its meanings in the present. Elaborately structured, intellectually rigorous, urgently paced, poignant, and often wildly funny, Memories of the Future brings together themes that have made Hustvedt among the most celebrated novelists working today: the fallibility of memory; gender mutability; the violence of patriarchy; the vagaries of perception; the ambiguous borders between sensation and thought, sanity and madness; and our dependence on primal drives such as sex, love, hunger, and rage.

Siri Hustvedt, fidèle à son engagement envers la cause des femmes, analyse ici la nature et les implications du regard, bien souvent manipulateur, voire prédateur, que les artistes de sexe masculin t

Lily Dahl es una heroína a la antigua: dura, hermosa y valiente. Siendo adolescente queda fascinada por un exótico forastero. Impulsada hacia un nuevo mundo de aventuras eróticas, Lily se verá envuelta en inexplicables y temerosos actos de locura.

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.

Seis selectos ensayos, de los que 4 versan sobre la relación entre arte y realidad. El quinto se adentra en el campo del erotismo, y en el último, recuerdos familiares son considerados como influenci

El aprecio por un cuadro de Bill Wechsler lleva al historiador de arte Leo Hertzberg a querer conocer a su autor. Una profunda amistad, basada por igual en afinidades y contrastes, los unirá desde entonces, e incluira asimismo a sus familia. A lo largo de los años tres mujeres orbitan en su universo: Erica, la hermosa profesora casada con Leo, y las dos esposas del pintor. La primera Lucille, es una hermetica y perfeccionista poeta; la segunda, Violet, antigua modelo, se dedica a la investigacion psicologica. Pero cuando una muerte tragica sacude inesperadamente el mundo de estos personajes, entre ellos surge un nuevo orden, bajo el que late un oscuro engaño que acabara por erigirse en una amenaza de imprevisibles consecuencias. En esta ocasion la autora muestra su exquisita sensibilidad, su agudeza analitica y su maestria literaria en un apasionante estudio sobre las relaciones humanas y el proceso de la creacion artisitca

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.

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.

Siri Hustvedts eindrucksvollster Roman. Frankfurter Rundschau. Zwei befreundete Kunstlerfamilien im New Yorker Stadtteil Soho. Siri Hustvedt erzahlt vom Aufbrechen und Ankommen, von Idealen und Lebensentwurfen, von Eltern und Kindern und davon, wie ein tragischer Unfall ein sorgsam geplantes Gluck jah zerstort.