a woman looking at men looking at women by siri hustvedt

'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post Read More Read Less in this regard I feel that she resembles Virginia Woolf ' Observer But to my mind, she is even more to be admired as an essayist. 'Her novels have received a deserved acclaim.

'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear' Hilary Mantel 'Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom' Salman Rushdie 'The voice is consistent, combining assured erudition with more playful questioning, always thoughtful and capable of surprising shifts of register and even genre' Lara Feigel, Guardian Fierce, moving and witty, it warns against drawing hard and fast borders where none exist. Ranging across artistic mothers such as Jane Austen and Louise Bourgeois, psychoanalysis, science, literature and ethnography, this is a polymath's journey into urgent questions about familial love and hate, human prejudice and cruelty, and the transformative power of art. 'Dizzyingly flexible, deeply human, often funny, it blasts aside our preconceptions and urges us to see the world as it is' iįeminist philosophy meets family memoir in Siri Hustvedt's most personal essay collection yet, a scintillating and profound exploration of motherhood, the maternal and misogyny. Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I Loved and Booker Prize-longlisted The Blazing World.

A woman looking at men looking at women by siri hustvedt