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Siri Hustvedt's most ambitious, most rewarding novel. It mesmerises, arouses, disturbs ' Salman Rushdie Very few writers in the twenty-first century are polymaths of the sort that previous centuries sometimes spawned – those who knew about all the subjects that mattered at the time, while still producing original work. Specialisation and the multiplication of fields and subfields of research, in both the humanities and the sciences, has rendered such breadth nearly impossible. Siri Hustvedt, however, is an exception: she is a polymath for our times, fluent in multiple specialised discourses, but whose mode is artistic. I need to explain why the son dying (or rather, the announcement of the son being dead) upset me so much, and why that ought to have made me close the book. And I need to stress that it did annoy me. It became a stone in my shoe as I limped on with this. I couldn’t just ignore it, it was not something I could put out of mind. Janet Burroway, "Let's have a fivesome: Siri Hustvedt's novel centers on the downtown New York art world", OCLC Number 97146420, New York Times Book Review, 9 March 2003 Two books - both having 5 stars - can be so very different. Isn't that what makes literature so marvelous?!

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Caroline Rosenthal, "The Inadequacy of Symbolic Surfaces: Urban Space, Art and Corporeality in Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved," in ed. Caroline Rosenthal, New York and Toronto Novels after Postmodernism Explorations of the Urban (Rochester, N.Y: Camden House, 2011), 73–122. Siri Hustvedt’s most ambitious, most rewarding novel. It mesmerises, arouses, disturbs ‘ Salman Rushdie Kjetsaa, Geir. Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A Writer's Life, translated by Siri Hustvedt and David McDuff (1998)

I’m hoping to write a book about the placenta, says Siri Hustvedt. ‘Umbilical phantoms’: why Freud and other thinkers missed obvious birth metaphors Medicine had granted permission to a fantasy that men have never abandoned, a muddled version of what Pygmalion wanted - something between a real woman and a beautiful thing.” A SIRI HUSTVEDT— Yes, but in the US, fiction is not regarded as important knowledge. STEM fields are serious, essential and masculine. The arts are expendable, feminine fluff, which doesn’t mean people aren’t transformed by reading fiction. They are. But what does the novel have that an academic article, art essay and scientific paper don’t? It doesn’t rely on theory, experiments, findings and facts. It isn’t teleological as arguments are. It ends, but it doesn’t have to solve. The great theoretician of the novel is Mikhail Bakhtin. My favourite quote from him sums up his idea of the dialogic: ‘Every word is half someone else’s.’ Bakhtin would call much that comes out of the academy ‘monological’ because the discourses are univocal and culturally dominant. He doesn’t say this – I do – but the third-person authoritative voice of the scholarly and scientific paper annoys me. Who is speaking? A great rumbling voice from on high? I use the first-person in all my texts. Bakhtin maintained that language is relational, and monological discourse distorts the underlying linguistic reality. Class, power, historical context, unique personal experience with other people collide in our words. Truth isn’t singular but plural. The best novels have a polyphony of voices, which do not agree with one another. Wuthering Heights (1847), The Brothers Karamazov (1879) and To the Lighthouse (1927) are sublime examples of polyphony, of multiple perspectives that dance and crash inside a single work. Three Emotional Stories", a lecture given at Pain, Poetry and Perception: A Symposium on the Convergence of Neuroscience, Literature, and Psychoanalysis at Georgetown University. Jointly sponsored by The Baltimore Washington Center for Psychoanalysis and the Department of Psychiatry Georgetown University Hospital. (With Joseph LeDoux and Michael Jasnow) Georgetown University. October 30, 2010. [ citation needed] While memoir is too conventional to interest Hustvedt, memories do make their way into her novel in which a protagonist by the initials of SH shares much, but not all, of the writer’s biography. Like SH, Hustvedt really did see the great poet John Ashbery reading in Greenwich Village at the Ear Inn; a tin of Campbell’s soup really did roll under the seats of the auditorium during a lecture on Shelley and Rousseau by the since-discredited and now long-dead academic Paul de Man.

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Because I've been engaged in a book club with three others--one who likes fiction, one who likes it with reservations, and a third who views it with trepidation--I've been thinking about why I like fiction so much. Modern fiction, classic fiction, whatever--what always draws me is the way human nature is portrayed. What does it mean to be human? Is it sad, broken, lonely, joyful, complicated? Yes. SIRI HUSTVEDT: Yes, the biases are omnipresent. We also need to combat the idea that we’re always making progress. It’s complete nonsense. If you visualise the game for even a moment, Hustvedt points out, the placental connection becomes obvious. The string! Kitap üzerine söylemek istediğim çok fazla şey var aslında, hatta çok sevdiğim bir kitaptaki kurgunun gerçeğe dönüşmesini okumanın heyecanı üzerine uzun uzun anlatmak istediklerim var. Lakin o kitabın ismini verdiğim anda bütün gizem dağılıp kitabın tadı kaçacağı için susuyorum. Umarım Can yayınları bu kitabı yakın zamanda yeniden yayın programına alır. Çok beğendim. Hubert Zapf, "Narrative, Ethics, and Postmodern Art in Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved", in Astrid Erll, Herbert Grabes, Ansgar Nünning, et al The Dissemination of Values through Literature and Other Media Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2008, pp. 51-63Yes, looking authoritarianism in the face, listening to racist, misogynistic, anti-immigrant rhetoric was like hearing Goebbels again, and it has lit a fire under my butt. When Trump was still president and running for re-election, my husband and I and several others started an organisation, Writers Against Trump, now called Writers for Democratic Action. And in whatever way we can, we’re trying to mobilise writers to write political pieces and get out the vote. Is it possible for a marriage to survive the death of a child? Discuss how Erica and other characters handle the grief of Matt’s death. How are parents to deal with the heartache of raising troubled children?

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Leo Hertzberg, o narrador, é um intelectual judeu, professor de história da arte na Universidade de Columbia, escritor e ensaísta, que se apaixona por um quadro, uma pintura de uma mulher, que decide comprar, pintado pelo desconhecido artista Bill Wechsler – nascendo entre os dois uma “irrevogável amizade”. We must all allow ourselves the fantasy of projection from time to time, a chance to clothe ourselves in the imaginary gowns and tails of what has never been and never will be. This gives some polish to our tarnished lives, and sometimes we may choose one dream over another, and in the choosing find some respite from ordinary sadness. After all, we, none of us, can ever untangle the knot of fictions that make up that wobbly thing we call a self.” Wegener, Susanne. "Die 'Kulturelle Initiation' der Lily Dahl: Identität in Siri Hustvedt's The Enchantment of Lily Dahl." PhiN: Philologie im Netz 32 (2005): 50–67. Necessary Leaps" (catalogue essay). Richard Allen Morris: Retrospective 1958–2004. Museum Haus Lange. Krefeld, Germany: 2004. Reprinted in Modern Painters. Winter, 2004.

Western philosophy and Western science have really supressed the realities of gestation and birth in ways that just flabbergast me, says Siri Hustvedt. The other thing that I liked about this book is Hustvedt’s ability to imprint strong images in her reader’s mind. It will take me sometime to shake off many scenes like Matthew’s death particularly when Leo thought: ”he is Matthew and he is not Matthew” or that scene when Violet was cradling the dead Bill not calling a police yet since she wanted to lay side by side with him. Or Violet wearing Bill’s work clothes or Mark wearing woman’s clothes. I was also able to picture in my mind a couple of paintings that were fully described in the story as if I saw those pictures with my own set of eyes! The World Trade Center." 110 Stories: New York Writers After September 11. Ed. Ulrich Baer. New York: New York University Press, 2002.

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Houdini." Fiction 9 (1990): 144–162. Reprinted in Best American Short Stories 1991. Ed. Alice Adams. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. 209–227. Intense and engrossing, What I Loved could also be titled What We'll Do for Love or What Love Will Do To Us for it explores the psychology of friendships, intimate and family relationships and the actions people take for the sake of love. But I get ahead of myself . . . Weather Markings." The Paris Review 81(1981): 136–137 Reprinted. The Paris Review Anthology. Ed. George Plimpton. New York: Norton, 1990. 582–5833. Mark shows signs of his illness even in early childhood. Should everyone have recognized the seriousness of Mark’s condition earlier? Were they afraid for him? or of him? What does it mean when Mark’s therapist calls the boy’s problems “characterological”? What does a characterological illness mean? Why is Mark so susceptible to Teddy Giles? Is it simply, as he states, that he is infected by a stronger personality? Is Mark an amoral character?SIRI HUSTVEDT: A lot of the gendered response is unconscious, implicit forms of prejudice that appear in the criticism. There are overtly hostile responses too, but I’m not sure even those critics know why they’re so angry. Audio clip of Siri Hustvedt talking about her novel What I Loved in The Writer's Craft, Eye on Books