Memories of the Future
'A 21st-century Virginia Woolf' - Literary Review
$22.83
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
11 February 2020
Summary
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED
‘Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt’ - Washington Post
‘A 21st-century Virginia Woolf’ - Literary Review
A provocative, wildly funny, intellectually rigorous and engrossing novel, punctuated by Siri Hustvedt’s own illustrations - a tour de force by one of America’s most acclaimed and beloved writ…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473694460 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1473694469 |
| Author: | Siri Hustvedt |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 11 February 2020 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 30mm |
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Critics Review
A multilayered portrait of the artist as a young woman … S. H. lays an array of selves, fictive and autobiographical, over each other like transparencies, to reveal deeper patterns. The fallibility of memory, madness and the artistic process are all incisively traced, but male entitlement emerges as the most insistent motif … Hustvedt has the imaginative mastery to encase complex ideas in the flesh and blood needed to render them visceral. - Observer
Reading a Hustvedt novel is like consuming the best of David Lynch on repeat … [SH’s] gauche girl detective persona conceals (of course) a formidable intellect roving among Hustvedt’s favoured subjects of neuroscience, philosophy, literature and gender, and what is most interesting in the book is to see how that gradually assimilates with events around her … Ideas somersault nimbly in the novel as memoir jostles with memories … both SH and her creator appear, in this intense, high-spirited Bildungsroman, to have come full circle. - Financial TimesThe reader has simply to play along, enjoying the deft and elegant writing while appreciating Hustvedt’s timely exploration of questions about authenticity, memory and demarcations of literary genre … Writing with the swing and energy of a Parisian prose poet, Huswedt re-creates her younger self an eager New York City flaneuse … Gender politics is what gives this book its energy … Her style is elegant and pragmatic. She deftly masters postmodern fictional techniques while also tapping into the broader liberal humanist tradition and placing feminism in that context. She’s a 21st-century Virginia Woolf, with many intellectual and creative rooms of her own - including a delightful talent for drawing cartoons, a host of which appear throughout her book. - Literary ReviewProvocative and mysterious, this fictionalised portrait of the author as a young woman is comic and sensual as well as thematically meaty, touching on memory, witchcraft and male violence. - Mail on SundayAmong the many riches of Siri Hustvedt’s portrait of a young woman finding her way as an artist are her reflections on how acts of remembering, if they reach deep enough, can heal the broken present, as well as on the inherent uncanniness of feeling oneself brought into being by the writing hand. Her reflections are no less profound for being couched as philosophical comedy of a Shandean variety. - J. M. CoetzeeHustvedt is that rarest of beasts: a deeply intellectual writer whose work is joyful and not intimidating in the slightest. This is terrific - The BooksellerCaptivating, smart and witty - StylistAbout The Author
Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt is the author of seven novels, five collections of essays, a poetry collection and a memoir. Her books have been listed for major prizes, including the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize and the PEN America Literary Award. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and has been awarded honorary PhDs from Johannes Gutenberg University, Stendhal University and the University of Oslo. She is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and has written on art for the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph. Born in Minnesota, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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