Yonder: Essays
jul 2013 · Henry Holt and Company
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Acclaimed novelist Siri Hustvedt's dazzling first collection of essays on art, literature, and the intricacies of the human experience.
In her brilliant and daring novels The Blindfold and The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, Siri Hustvedt has won critical acclaim and a rapidly expanding international audience. In Yonder, her first book of essays, Hustvedt explores the complex relationship between art and the world through six thought-provoking pieces.
From a personal meditation on memory and place to an original interpretation of Vermeer's painting "Woman with a Pearl Necklace," Hustvedt's essays are insightful and wide-ranging. She examines the essence of still life as a genre, offers a profound piece on Charles Dickens, reassesses The Great Gatsby, and delivers a witty and provocative assault on contemporary pieties in "A Plea for Eros."
With her keen eye for detail and her unique perspective, Hustvedt invites readers on an illuminating journey through literature, art history, and the complexities of the human experience. Yonder is a sparkling collection from one of America's most acclaimed writers.
In her brilliant and daring novels The Blindfold and The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, Siri Hustvedt has won critical acclaim and a rapidly expanding international audience. In Yonder, her first book of essays, Hustvedt explores the complex relationship between art and the world through six thought-provoking pieces.
From a personal meditation on memory and place to an original interpretation of Vermeer's painting "Woman with a Pearl Necklace," Hustvedt's essays are insightful and wide-ranging. She examines the essence of still life as a genre, offers a profound piece on Charles Dickens, reassesses The Great Gatsby, and delivers a witty and provocative assault on contemporary pieties in "A Plea for Eros."
With her keen eye for detail and her unique perspective, Hustvedt invites readers on an illuminating journey through literature, art history, and the complexities of the human experience. Yonder is a sparkling collection from one of America's most acclaimed writers.
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Siri Hustvedt was born in 1955 in Northfield, Minnesota. She has a Ph.D. from Columbia University in English literature and is the internationally acclaimed author of five novels, The Sorrows of an American, What I Loved, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, The Blindfold, and The Summer Without Men, as well as a growing body of nonfiction, including Living, Thinking, Looking, A Plea for Eros, and Mysteries of the Rectangle, and an interdisciplinary investigation of the body and mind in The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves. She has given lectures on artists and theories of art at the Prado, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 2011, she delivered the thirty-ninth annual Freud Lecture in Vienna. She lives in Brooklyn.
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