HUSTVEDT SIRI

(P/B) THE BLAZING WORLD
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...
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(P/B) THE SHAKING WOMAN OR A HISTORY OF MY NERVES
While speaking at a memorial event for her father, the novelist Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Was it triggered by nerves, emotion - or something else entirely? In this profoundly thought-provoking and revealing book, Hustvedt takes the reader on her journey through psychiatry, philosophy, neuroscience and medical history in search of a diagnosis. Conveying the often frightening mysteries of illness, she illuminates the perennially mysterious connection between mind and body and what we mean by 'I'. (From the ...
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ΤΟ ΚΑΛΟΚΑΙΡΙ ΔΙΧΩΣ ΑΝΤΡΕΣ
Στα καλά καθούμενα, ο από τριακονταετίας σύζυγός σου σου ζητάει να κάνετε μια ανάπαυλα στον γάμο σας, για να απολαύσει το πάθος του για μια νεαρή Γαλλίδα. Τι κάνεις εσύ: α) Υποθέτεις ότι είναι μια περαστική περιπέτεια και πας με τα νερά του; β) Δηλώνεις έξαλλη τη διάλυση του γάμου σας; γ) Καταρρέεις; δ) Αποσύρεσαι σ' ένα ασφαλές καταφύγιο και ανασυντάσσεις τις δυνάμεις σου; Η Μία Φρέντρικσεν καταρρέει στην αρχή, μετά μετακομίζει για το καλοκαίρι σε μια μικρή πόλη της Μιννεσότα όπου πέρασε τα παιδικά της χρόνια. Εκεί μαίνεται κι αφρίζει, κ...
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(P/B) A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN
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...
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(P/B) MOTHERS. FATHERS, AND OTHERS
Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I Loved and Booker Prize-longlisted The Blazing World. Siri Hustvedt's relentlessly curious mind and expansive intellect are on full display in this stunning new collection of essays, whose subjects range from the nature of memory and time to what we inherit from our parents, the power of art during tragedy, misogyny, motherhood, neuroscience, and the books we turn to during a pandemi...
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(P/B) MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE
A provocative, wildly funny, intellectually rigorous and engrossing novel, punctuated by Siri Hustvedt's own illustrations - a tour de force by one of America's most acclaimed and beloved writers. Fresh from Minnesota and hungry for all New York has to offer, twenty-three-year-old S.H. embarks on a year that proves both exhilarating and frightening - from bruising encounters with men to the increasingly ominous monologues of the woman next door. Forty years on, those pivotal months come back to vibrant life when S.H. discovers the notebook...
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(P/B) WHAT I LOVED
Over 250,000 copies sold - now REISSUED AS A SCEPTRE 30TH CLASSIC, with a new afterword by the author. 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 troubled 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 ...
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(P/B) LIVING, THINKING, LOOKING
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 ...
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(P/B) THE BLINDFOLD
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 ...
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(P/B) THE ENCHANTMENT OF LILY DAHL
Lily Dahl is a heroine of the old school: tough, beautiful and brave. A nineteen-year-old waitress and aspiring actress living in Webster, Minnesota, she becomes enchanted by an exotic outsider - an artist from New York. Drawn into a world of erotic adventure, she finds herself the target of mysterious acts of madness as she strains against the confines of small-town life. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) WHAT I LOVED
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 troubled 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. (From the publisher)...
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ΤΟ ΜΥΣΤΙΚΟ ΤΗΣ ΛΙΛΥ ΝΤΑΛ
Η Λίλυ Νταλ είναι μια ηρωίδα από εκείνες της παλιάς εποχής: σκληρή, όμορφη και γενναία. Διανύοντας τη δύσκολη ηλικία ανάμεσα στην εφηβεία και την ωριμότητα, εργάζεται σαν σερβιτόρα στο Γουέμπστερ της Μινεσότα και μαγεύεται από έναν εξωτικό νεοφερμένο -έναν Εβραίο ζωγράφο από τη Νέα Υόρκη. Καθώς αρχίζει να εξερευνά τον κόσμο της ερωτικής εμπειρίας η ζωή της αλλάζει: ασφυκτιά μέσα στα στενά όρια της μικρής της πόλης και ταυτόχρονα αγωνιά, βλέποντας να την αγγίζει η παραφροσύνη και η ανεξήγητη τρέλλα των άλλων. Η ιστορία της Λίλυ παρακολουθεί...
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Η ΤΥΦΛΟΜΥΓΑ
Αν ο τίτλος του βιβλίου δεν ήταν "Η Τυφλόμυγα", θα μπορούσε να είναι "Οι περιπέτειες της Άιρις Βίγκαν στη Νέα Υόρκη". Στιγμιότυπα μεγάλης έντασης, τα οποία συνδέει ένας ιδιαίτερα χαλαρός ιστός, συνθέτουν αυτή τη «στοιχειωμένη ιστορία θαυμάτων». Η Άιρις, μια νεαρή κοπέλα που παρακολουθεί μεταπτυχιακά μαθήματα και που αντιμετωπίζει μεγάλα οικονομικά προβλήματα, προσλαμβάνεται από έναν μυστηριώδη άνδρα και αναλαμβάνει να εκπονεί για λογαριασμό του, λεπτομερέστατες περιγραφές των προσωπικών αντικειμένων μιας δολοφονημένης γυναίκας το φωτογραφ...
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A PLEA FOR EROS