THE BLAZING WORLD Siri Hustvedt
Tertulias literarias Literatur Solasaldiak Literary Circle
Errenteriako Biblioteka 2019 / 10 / 09
Siri Hustvedt Siri Hustvedt (born February 19, 1955) is an American novelist and essayist. Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fiction. She started writing at thirteen after a family trip to ReykjavĂk where she read various works of classic literature. Hustvedt graduated from St. Olaf College with a B.A. in History in 1977. She moved to New York City to attend Columbia University as a graduate student in 1978. Her first published work was a poem in The Paris Review. Hustvedt met her husband, writer Paul Auster in 1981, and they married the following year. They live together in Brooklyn, New York. In 2015, Hustvedt was appointed as lecturer in psychiatry at the Dewitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical School of Cornell University. Siri Hustvedt is the 2012 recipient of the Gabarron International Award for Thought and Humanities. In 2014, she received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oslo. She received an Honorary Doctorate from the UniversitĂŠ Stendhal-Grenoble, France, on October 20, 2015 and from Gutenberg University-Mainz, Germany, on June 16, 2016. In 2019 she was awarded the Princess of Asturias Award in Literature.
Selected Works Fiction The Blindfold (1992) The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996) What I Loved (2003) The Sorrows of an American (2008) The Summer Without Men (2011) The Blazing World (2014) Memories of the Future (2019)
Nonfiction Yonder (1998) Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting (2005) A Plea for Eros (2005) The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (2009) Living, Thinking, Looking (2012) A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women – Essays (2016)
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 testimonies of her children, lover and a dear friend. Each account is different, however, and the mysteries multiply.
Reviews ·“The Blazing World is a profound and deeply serious book on
many levels, but it is most entertaining in its critique of the New York art scene - its vanities, double standards, blindspots.” (Independent) ·“What
I find most consoling about reading Hustvedt is her
acknowledgment of the chaos of human interaction and the machinations of the mind without being morose or nihilistic.” (Into the Void)
Interesting links Official Web: http://sirihustvedt.net
Our coordinator´s blog (ENG/ESP) https://donostiabookclub.blogspot.com
"I'm eriting for my life" (The Guardian): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/03/siri-hustvedt-i-am-writing-formy-life-memories-of-the-future-interview