Internationally acclaimed as a novelist, Siri Hustvedt is also highly regarded as a writer of non-fiction whose insights are drawn from her broad knowledge in the arts, humanities, and sciences. In this trilogy of works collected in a single volume, Hustvedt brings a feminist, interdisciplinary perspective to a range of subjects. Louise Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso, Susan Sontag and Knut Ove Knausgaard are among those who corne under her scrutiny. In the book's central essay, she explores the intractable mind-body problem and in the third section she reflects on the mysteries of hysteria, synesthesia, memory, perception, and the philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard. With clarity, wit, and passion, she exposes gender bics, upends received ideas ; and challenges her reader to think again.
Siri Hustvedt, nacida en Minnesota, de padres noruegos, vive en Brooklyn, Nueva York. Se ha dedicado a la poesía, el ensayo y la novela.. Ha publicado el libro de relatos "Los ojos vendados" y la novela "El hechizo de Lily Dahl", editados por Circe, así como "En lontananza", una colección de seis ensayos "deslumbrantes", en palabras de Robert Saladrigas.
