Books by Siri Hustvedt
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review 1: Though this was a Man Booker longlist title and therefore not part of my self-propelled assignment, it sounded too compelling to pass up. Though at times somewhat convoluted, this is an astounding feat of concept and imagination. Hustvedt’s character is an artist whose more famou...
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review 1: Сири Хуствет изглежда истинска късметлийка. Книгата й „Лято без мъже“, по класическата тема „пътуване към себе си след раздяла“, звучи сякаш авторката е успяла да прекара почти 60 г, без да е била напусната нито веднъж. Без дори да е преживяла и еднократна детска сепарационна тре...
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review 1: Intellectually challenging, built on the shifting sands of postmodern identity. Whose voice are we hearing, whose art are we seeing? Hustvedt explores circles of perception and understanding, giving points of view that range from a New Age healer to a sophisticated academic schol...
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review 1: Thought provoking novel that raises many an interesting issue about art, identity, perception and the interplay of the three. There were times when the novel became a bit esoteric for me. I was unwilling to follow the detailed neuroscience or lengthy philosophical ramblings, bu...
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review 1: The issues I had with it are somewhat redeemed by the end, which introduces an emotional presence to the reading of Harry's life and life's work. It's a very intelligent book and brilliantly done; I think the perspective, the multiple layers of story and personality overlaying it...
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review 1: Denne boka har jeg brukt lang tid på. Både fordi essayene er så mettet med innhold at små porsjoner holder, men også fordi jeg synes boka er intellektuelt krevende. Sjelden krevende. Siri Hustvedt er ikke bare en sterk forfatter, hun er også særdeles intelligent kvinne med kjenns...
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review 1: This is probably the most hateful, self-centered, obsessively narcissistic, stereotypical, shallow and pretentious work of litterature I've ever read. A sort of story carefully constructed to perpetuate and elaborate on the chokingly clichéed narrative complex about men as violen...
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review 1: I will say it was the title of the novel that first intrigued me, and made me think it would be a quick, easy summer read. But it was actually tough to get through for such a short book. As an English scholar myself, I appreciated some of the literary references and analyses, but...
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review 1: "Sentada delante de mi madre en su pequeño apartamento me sobrevino la idea de que ella era para mí un lugar tanto como una persona"......"Siempre he pensado que eras demasiado sensible- me dijo, repitiendo un tema recurrente en mi familia-, hipersinsible, como la princesa del gu...
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review 1: If I were a woman with intellectual pretensions, I'd probably have liked this better. As it happens, though, I'm an old white male who tried hard, who read about half way through, but who ultimately just skipped to the end to find out whether the protagonist and her husband got b...
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review 1: The book is beautifully written. Different from the usual female authors, Siri states her thoughts through physiological theories, instead of purely basing on feelings and personal experience. I admire her knowledge on literature and arts. The whole section on Looking is talking ...
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review 1: A very intelligent memoir of illness, in which the author uses deep knowledge from several disciplines--neuroscience, psychoanalysis, literature--and her own experience to discuss the relationship between mind and body. Hustvedt is the best proof that very cerebral people are of...
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review 1: J'aime Siri Hudsvedt, son incroyable finesse, sa sensibilité et ses phrases dentelées. J'aime également sa manière de s'immerger complètement dans son sujet. Ici c'est un essai passionnant sur la neurologie la psychiatrie la psychanalyse. A la croisée de ces chemins, SH se dévoil...