Beschreibung
In diesem Buch erforscht Siri Hustvedt nicht nur die Ursachen ihrer eigenen rätselhaften Nervenerkrankung, sondern sucht auch nach Antworten auf das ewige Dilemma zwischen Geist und Körper und darauf, was es bedeutet, ein Mensch zu sein. A memoir giving an intimate insight into the author's mind while illuminating a subject of interest to many. From the author of "The Sorrows of an American.
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Autorenportrait
Siri Hustvedt is the author of seven novels including the international bestseller What I Loved, The Blazing World, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and Memories of the Future, as well as five collections of essays: Yonder, Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting, A Plea for Eros, Living, Thinking, Looking and A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women. She has also published a poetry collection, Reading To You, and the memoir The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves.
Hustvedt has won the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities and the European Essay Prize for her essay The Delusions of Certainty. 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, Siri Hustvedt lives in Brooklyn, New York.
