Name: A Plea for Eros: Essays/Siri Hustvedt
Brand: Picador USA
Price: 101.99 RON
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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. About the Author: Siri Hustvedt is the author of The B lindfold and The Enchantment of Lily Dahl , which are available from Picador. Her essays on art, Mysteries of the Rectangle , are available from Princeton Architectural Press. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, Paul Auster.