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Zusatztext These essays offer thoughts on locating morality in the brain! the origins of desire and who we are when we sleep...I suggest you take this book to your favourite corner! turn off the phone and allow yourself to be reminded of the pure pleasure of using your mind. Informationen zum Autor Siri Hustvedt's first novel, The Blindfold , was published by Sceptre in 1993. Since then she has published The Enchantment of Lily Dahl , What I Loved , The Sorrows of an American , The Summer Without Men and The Blazing World , which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2014 and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. She is also the author of the poetry collection Reading To You , and four collections of essays - Yonder , Mysteries of the Rectangle : Essays on Painting , A Plea for Eros and Living , Thinking , Looking , as well as the memoir The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves . Born in Minnesota, Siri Hustvedt now lives in Brooklyn, New York. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University and in 2012 was awarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities. She delivered the Schelling Lecture in Aesthetics in Munich in 2010, the Freud Lecture in Vienna in 2011 and the opening keynote at the conference to mark Kierkegaard's 200th anniversary in Copenhagen in 2013, while her latest honorary doctorate is from the University of Gutenburg in Germany. She is also Lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and has written on art for the New York Times , the Daily Telegraph and several exhibition catalogues. Klappentext FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN 'Lucid, absorbing and vigorous' Independent 'Richly intelligent' Financial Times In these fascinating essays, Siri Hustvedt shows what lies behind her fiction: an abiding curiosity about who we are and how we got that way. Covering a wide range of subjects, from the nature of desire to false memories and the paintings of Goya, she draws on the insights provided by both the arts and sciences to deepen our understanding of what it means to be human - to live, think and look. 'As an essayist, Hustvedt is the best kind: superbly clear, intellectually challenging but always human' Independent on Sunday Vorwort A dazzling collection of essays by the bestselling author of What I Loved - thought-provoking, engaging, illuminating reflections on what it means to be human Zusammenfassung A dazzling collection of essays by the bestselling author of What I Loved - thought-provoking, engaging, illuminating reflections on what it means to be human...
