Siri Hustvedt

"Being a Man" spiegelt die oft überraschenden und immer treffenden Ansichten Siri Hustvedts zu Literatur, Kunst und Kultur wider. Immer leidenschaftlich, immer klar, immer ehrlich entlarvt sie kulturelle Stereotypen und lässt uns einen neuen Blick auf kulturelle und gesellschaftliche Phänomene werfen.

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'A luminous collection of mind-expanding pieces on literary and philosophical themes' Observer'Thoughtful and sensuous'Daily TelegraphThis illuminating collection brings together Siri Hustvedt's earliest essays, exploring the themes that have preoccupied her writing throughout her career: memory and imagination, psychology and art, love and desire. Drawing on her personal experience - as daughter, sister, mother and wife; student, teacher, reader and writer - she illustrates fundamental aspects of our lives. Wise, honest and fiercely intelligent, this is a book that invites us to look afresh at ourselves and the world we inhabit.'One of the most talented voices in contemporary fiction . . . Hustvedt brings the same visual power, sensuality and intelligence to her collection of essays'Los Angeles Times

From the author of the international bestseller What I Loved, a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and writers. 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.

"Was ich liebte" erzählt von sexuellen und künstlerischen Lebensentwürfen, von Familien, Eltern und Kindern. Alles beginnt 1975 im New Yorker Stadtteil SoHo, wo der Kunsthistoriker Leo Hertzberg in einer Galerie ein Bild des jungen Malers Bill Wechsler kauft. Es ist ein Frauenakt, der jedoch den rätselhaften Titel "Selbstporträt" trägt. Bald ziehen Leo und Bill mit ihren Frauen und neugeborenen Söhnen in ein Haus. Ihre Freundschaft ist bestimmt von der Suche nach ihrer Identität. Doch keine Erkenntnis der Welt kann sie auf die Schicksalsschläge vorbereiten, die ihr Leben für immer verändern: einen tragischen Unglücksfall und das Abrutschen von Bills Sohn Mark in die Drogen- und Transvestitenszene, wo er in einen bestialischen Mord verwickelt wird ... Siri Hustvedt kehrt das Innerste ihrer Figuren nach Außen. Das Buch ist erschütternd, dunkel, gefährlich - eine Reise in jene Regionen der Seele, deren Existenz wir gern vor uns verbergen. Es ist auch ein kluger Roman über das Erwachen aus der selbstverschuldeten Naivität, über das Ende des schönen Traumes einer Generation, die aufgebrochen war, die Freiheit zu suchen.

The protagonist of Siri Hustvedt's astonishing second novel The Enchantment of Lily Dahl is a heroine of the old style: tough, beautiful, and brave. Standing at the threshold of adulthood, she enters a new world of erotic adventure, profound but unexpected friendship, and inexplicable, frightening acts of madness. Lily's story is also the story of a small town--Webster, Minnesota--where people are brought together by a powerful sense of place, both geographical and spiritual. Here gossip, secrets, and storytelling are as essential to the bond among its people as the borders that enclose the town. The real secret at the heart of the book is the one that lies between reality and appearances, between waking life and dreams, at the place where imagination draws on its transforming powers in the face of death.

Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler; and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo's story, which spans twenty-five years, follows the growing involvement between his family and Bill's--an intricate constellation of attachments that includes the two men, their wives, Erica and Violet, and their sons, Matthew and Mark. The families live in the same New York apartment building, rent a house together in the summers and keep up a lively exchange of ideas about life and art, but the bonds between them are tested, first by sudden tragedy, and then by a monstrous duplicity that slowly comes to the surface. A beautifully written novel that combines the intimacy of a family saga with the suspense of a thriller, What I Loved is a deeply moving story about art, love, loss, and betrayal.

Iris Vegan, Literaturstudentin in New York: eine intelligente, schöne Frau, aber auch unsicher, beeinflussbar, auf der Suche nach sich selbst - eine Idealfigur für die Phantasien der Männer. Wie unter einem inneren Zwang lässt sie sich auf eine Reihe von erotischen Abenteuern ein.

The international phenomenon by one of America's most acclaimed and beloved writers, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction

Nächtliche Blicke in ein erleuchtetes Fenster: Ein halbnackter, muskulöser Mann malt selbstvergessen und schweißgebadet an einem Ölbild. Die junge Lily Dahl, die ihn aus ihrem Fenster jenseits der Straße beobachtet, ist fasziniert. Abend für Abend schaut sie ihm zu, und eines Nachts schaltet sie ihr eigenes Licht an und zieht sich für ihn aus ...

"I Siri Hustvedts psykogyser er selv det normale sært. Siri Hustvedt [har] med en vis suverænitet fundet sin egen melodi... Siri Hustvedt behøver slet ikke nattemørket for at skabe uhygge. Hun mestrer det i dagslys, men vel at mærke ikke for gysets egen skyld. Det foruroligende og bizarre er en del af menneskelivet. En meget fascinerende og uheldsvanger roman. Fortryllende, faktisk." Klaus Rothstein i Berlingske Tidende

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION'A taut and convincing drama, as well as an intriguing metaphysical thriller' Sunday Times'Full of humour, surprise and powerful images' ObserverLily 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.'Queasily erotic, Gothic and menacing' Evening Standard

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.

Den 27. april sa Paul at han håpet å komme tilbake som et gjenferd. Jeg skriver om gjenferd. Brevene han skrev er gjenferd, de også. Gjenferd. En kjærlighetshistorie er Siri Hustvedts mest personlige utgivelse - et ømt og klokt portrett av to forfatteres samliv gjennom 43 år - fra det første møtet mellom Hustvedt og Paul Auster i 80-tallets New York, til Auster døde av kreft i 2024. Boken er et kjærlighetsbrev og en klagesang. Hustvedt går til historien, filosofien og vitenskapen og undersøker sorgritualer, fornemmelsen av tid som opphører og hvordan kroppen reagerer på savn. Hun retter dirrende kritikk mot dagens USA, og forteller om den voldsomme sorgen i kjølvannet av de tragiske dødsfallene til Austers sønn og hans nyfødte datter. Den rommer også dagboknedtegnelser og eposter, håndskrevne lapper og det som skulle bli Paul Austers aller siste tekst Brev til Miles. Han rakk å skrive 35 sider av det han håpet skulle bli en bok til deres første felles barnebarn, født samme år som han selv døde. Mest av alt er dette uredd og usedvanlig gripende historie om to elskende og skapende mennesker som får tenke, vokse og vikle seg sammen gjennom et halvt århundre. Og om hva som skjer når den ene plutselig er borte.