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A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.” Anna Thiemann "Shaking Patterns of Diagnosis: Siri Hustvedt and Charlotte Perkins Gilman," in Carmen Birkle and Johanna Heil, eds., Communication Disease: Cultural Representations of American Medicine (Winter: Heidelberg, 2013), 365–386.

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Zapf, Hubert. "Trauma, Narrative and Ethics in Recent American Fiction." Other People's Pain: Narratives of Trauma and the Question of Ethics, edited by Martin Modlinger and Phillip Sonntag. Berlin: Peter Lang AG, 2011. Noonie Minogue wrote in the Times Literary Supplement that the novel "makes you ponder human existence with a peculiar mixture of stoicism and wonder. [7]" Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt’ Washington PostI was reading their work [including yours] and at the same time reading its critical reception over time. And you get this really clear sense of the gendered nature of the way [women’s] work is received. I think so often we vaguely notice aspects of gendered critique in passing. We sort of see little bits and pieces, but we don’t often have the opportunity to put the whole narrative together.

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Reprinted: The Penguin Book of Art Writing. Eds. Karen Wright and Martin Gayford, 1999. Reprinted in Writers on Artists, London: DK, 2001. Hustvedt’s novels are imbued with passionate philosophical concerns about the self, memory, identity and aesthetics. While her roots are in literature, less widely known to her fiction readers is her exceptional grasp of the sciences – especially the life sciences, from neuroscience and psychology to genetics and embryology. She has written groundbreaking essays on the embodied self, and the lasting influence of mind/body dualism on Western thinking, culture and social structures. The Drama of Perception: Looking at Morandi." Sunday Lectures at the Met. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. September 21, 2008. [ citation needed] SIRI HUSTVEDT: Yes, it’s what’s forgotten. And what’s forgotten turns out, for me anyway, to play a huge role in how to think about Western culture.

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I don't really know what to say about What I Loved to effectively express how I felt about it. Although what happens is interesting, it's the quality of the writing that really makes it what it is. Hustvedt brilliantly relates a whole spectrum of emotions and makes you feel and suffer along with her characters. The atmosphere is fantastic, with a thread of suspense running throughout the novel, which intensifies in the last few chapters as the plot builds to a dramatic climax. The Teddy Giles character became so menacing to me that I felt genuinely frightened and couldn't get to sleep after the final revelations. This is just one example of how much this book gets inside your head - I still can't stop thinking about it. It's also tremendously inspiring, and apart from The Secret History, I don't think I've ever come across anything that's made me want to get out a notebook and furiously WRITE quite as much as this did. It's beautifully, sumptuously written and vastly intelligent. Two books - both having 5 stars - can be so very different. Isn't that what makes literature so marvelous?! He was one of those people in New York who was purported to "know everybody". "Knowing everybody" is a phrase that denotes not having many relations with people but having relations with a few people generally thought to be significant and powerful.” La segunda parte se inicia con un trágico hecho, y es muy de agradecer la inteligencia y delicadeza que la autora muestra al tratarlo, tan fácil de empujar al escritor menos hábil o respetuoso con el lector por el precipicio de un sentimentalismo de lagrimita fácil. También es digno de admiración su talento para construir el crescendo de tensión y suspense que es la parte final de la novela, un inquietante thriller que te agarra y no te suelta hasta casi el final.

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Nine Boxes." A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell. Ed., Jonathan Safran Foer. New York: D.A.P., 2001. 93–98. Zapf, Hubert. "Narrative, Ethics, and Postmodern Art in Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved." In Ethics in Culture: The Dissemination of Values through Literature and Other Media, edited by Astrid Erll, Herbert Grabes and Angsar Nünning. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2008, 171–94.Medicine had granted permission to a fantasy that men have never abandoned, a muddled version of what Pygmalion wanted - something between a real woman and a beautiful thing.” But we all live there, I thought to myself, in the imaginary stories we tell ourselves about our lives.”

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Three Emotional Stories: Reflections on Memory, the Imagination, Narrative and the Self. Neuropsychoanalysis 13 (2), 2011 (with peer review: Vittorio Gallese, dept. of neuroscience, University of Parma and Richard Kessler, Adults and Children with Learning Disabilities, Inc. New York)Mark shows signs of his illness even in early childhood. Should everyone have recognized the seriousness of Mark’s condition earlier? Were they afraid for him? or of him? What does it mean when Mark’s therapist calls the boy’s problems “characterological”? What does a characterological illness mean? Why is Mark so susceptible to Teddy Giles? Is it simply, as he states, that he is infected by a stronger personality? Is Mark an amoral character?