Siri Hustvedt

A Plea for Eros (eBook, ePUB)

Essays

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Picador
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429900492
• Artikelnr.: 39934416

Autorenporträt

Siri Hustvedt

© Beowulf Sheehan

Inhaltsangabe

Yonder
A Plea for Eros
Franklin Pangborn: An Apologia
Eight Days in a Corset
Being a Man
Leaving Your Mother
Living with Strangers
9/11, or One Year Later
The Bostonians: Personal and Impersonal Words
Charles Dickens and the Morbid Fragment
Extracts from a Story of the Wounded Self