Ergebnis für "Siri Hustvedt" in Kunst & Literatur

In this moving new memoir, celebrated writer Siri Hustvedt recounts the experience of navigating with her husband, Paul Auster, what she'd dubbed "Cancerland." She walks us through his diagnosis, the treatments, the peaks of hope and the valleys of suffering, and the love they continued to share along the way. It is a patchwork-quilt memoir that stitches together emails sent by Siri to update friends on Paul's health, letters drafted by Paul for their grandson to one day read, and memories recounted by Hustvedt with her signature lyricism and poetic prose.

Forfatterens personlige beretning om sit forsøg på at få stillet en diagnose på sine ukontrollable rystelser, der starter under en mindetale, hun holder for sin afdøde far. Sygehistorien iblandes en neurovidenskabelig, litterær og filosofisk analyse af forholdet mellem krop og sind og af hvordan sygdom kan gå ind i vores identitetsopfattelse. Siri Hustvedt (f. 1955) er opvokset i Minnesota i USA med norsk-amerikanske forældre. Hun har en ph.d.

Colm Tóibín, beloved Irish author of The Testament of Mary and Brooklyn (now being adapted for a film starring Saoirse Ronan), in conversation about his newest novel, Nora Webster, an unforgettable portrait of an inimitable woman, her family, and the small Irish town that confines her. With Siri Hustvedt ( The Blazing World).

Back by popular demand, Jennifer Egan ( A Visit from the Goon Squad), Siri Hustvedt ( The Blazing World), and Margot Livesey ( The Flight of Gemma Hardy) revisit Gustave Flaubert's classic in a lively discussion. With a reading by Amanda Quaid ( Pericles at the Public Theater).