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Novelists Egan ( The Keep), Hustvedt ( The Sorrows of an American), and Livesey ( The House on Fortune Street) along with actress Hope Davis --the group that entertainingly and illuminatingly explored Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice at this book club--return by popular demand to revisit George Eliot's classic.

Dos mujeres, una ciudad, un misterio: una historia entre la realidad y la ficción, entre el thriller psicológico y la novela de formación. Una escritora consagrada que trabaja en sus memorias redescubre los viejos diarios de su primer año en Nueva York, a finales de la década de 1970. Recién salida de un pueblo de Minnesota, sin apenas dinero y con hambre de nuevas experiencias, se deslumbra por todo lo que le ofrece la ciudad.

Una de las obras fundamentales de Siri Hustvedt. Una novela sobre la pérdida, los secretos y los fantasmas familiares. El hallazgo por parte de Erik y su hermana de una inquietante nota tras la muerte de su padre es el detonante de otra novela magistral con la que Siri Hustvedt vuelve a valerse del suspense y el misterio para llevar al oyente hasta la esfera más íntima del ser humano, ahondando en las consecuencias de los secretos familiares y explorando cómo las heridas forjan nuestra identidad.

Karen Joy Fowler, author of the best-selling The Jane Austen Book Club, joins other Austen enthusiasts including novelists Siri Hustvedt and Jennifer Egan to celebrate the work of one of English literature's best-loved authors. In connection with Penguin Classics' 60th Anniversary release of Jane Austen: The Complete Novels: Classic Deluxe Edition, this lively discussion will span the vivid characters, biting satire, and delicious romance of Austen's six novels. Selections read by Hope Davis.

Back by popular demand, novelists Siri Hustvedt ( The Blazing World), Jennifer Egan (Pulitzer Prize-winner for A Visit from the Goon Squad), and Margot Livesey ( The Flight of Gemma Hardy), the trio that has brought Middlemarch, Pride & Prejudice, Anna Karenina, and The Portrait of a Lady to life at past events in this series, revisit Virginia Woolf's classic.

The controversial father of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud charted the human unconscious, brought us the talking cure, and wrote books that now rank among the classics of world literature. In On the Couch, the great analyst is analyzed by some of today's great writers and thinkers, who help us understand the man who has helped us understand ourselves as much, if not more, than anyone else, ever. The result is a fresh, multifaceted reassessment of Freud's continuing relevance and influence on ideas, literature, culture, science, and more.

Novelists Egan (Pulitzer Prize-winner for A Visit from the Goon Squad), Hustvedt ( The Summer Without Men) and Livesey ( The Flight of Gemma Hardy) - the trio that brought Middlemarch and Anna Karenina to life at this book club - are back by popular demand to revisit James' classic. With a reading from the novel by Fritz Weaver.

Colm Tóibín, beloved Irish author of The Testament of Mary and Brooklyn (now being adapted for a film starring Saoirse Ronan), in conversation about his newest novel, Nora Webster, an unforgettable portrait of an inimitable woman, her family, and the small Irish town that confines her. With Siri Hustvedt ( The Blazing World).

Siri Hustvedt's relentlessly curious mind and expansive intellect are on full display in this stunning new collection of essays, whose subjects range from the nature of memory and time to what we inherit from our parents, the power of art during tragedy, misogyny, motherhood, neuroscience and the books we turn to during a pandemic.

A provocative, exuberant novel about time, desire, memory and the imagination, which tells the story of a young Midwestern woman's first year in New York in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious neighbour, Lucy Brite. As she listens to Lucy through the thin walls of her dilapidated building, S. H. transcribes her neighbour's bizarre and increasingly ominous monologues in a notebook, along with sundry other adventures, until one night when Lucy bursts into her apartment to rescue S. H. from a frightening situation.

As well as being a prize-winning, best-selling novelist, Siri Hustvedt is widely regarded as a leading thinker in the fields of neurology, feminism, art criticism and philosophy. She believes passionately that art and science are too often kept separate and that conversations across disciplines are vital to increasing our knowledge of the human mind and body, how they connect and how we think, feel and see.

"Minder om fremtiden" er en overdådig roman om tid, erindring, lyst og fantasi. "Minder om fremtiden" fortæller historien om den unge forfatterspire S.H. fra Minnesota og hendes første år i New York i slutningen af 1970‘erne. Hun bor i en faldefærdig ejendom og er besat af sin mystiske nabo, Lucy Brite, hvis rablende monologer hun følger gennem de papirtynde vægge og nedskriver i sin notesbog. Hvad er der galt med hende?

As she listens to Lucy through the thin walls of her dilapidated building, S.H., aka “Minnesota”, transcribes her neighbor’s bizarre and increasingly ominous monologues in a notebook, along with sundry other adventures, until one frightening night when Lucy bursts into her apartment on a rescue mission. Forty years later, S.H., now a veteran author, discovers her old notebook, as well as early drafts of a never-completed novel while moving her aging mother from one facility to another.

New Yorker-forfatteren Mia har haft et alvorligt sammenbrud efter at hendes mand gennem 30 år, Boris, vil have en pause. "Pausen" viser sig at være en 20 år yngre fransk kollega. For at få det hele på afstand tager Mia til sin hjemby Bonden i Minnesota, hvor hendes mor stadig bor. Sådan begynder Mias sommer uden mænd. Hun raser og sørger over sit tab, men bliver også involveret i livet omkring sig. Hun møder sin mors jævnaldrende veninder og indser, at livsgnist, humor og vid ikke forsvinder med alderen. Hun knytter sig til sin unge nabo og hendes to små børn. Og hun bliver ansat som lærer på

Die junge S. H. bezieht 1979 ein heruntergekommenes Zimmer in New York. Sie kommt direkt aus der Provinz, und als angehende Schriftstellerin genießt sie den Schmutz wie den Glanz der neuen Stadt. Alles saugt sie begierig auf. So auch, durch die papierdünnen Wände, die klagenden Monologe ihrer Nachbarin Lucy Brite. Von Misshandlung ist die Rede, von Kindstod, ja von Mord. Lucy wird für S. H. zur Obsession. Bis eines Nachts ein dramatisches Ereignis in S. H.s Wohnung dazu führt, dass sich die beiden Frauen zum ersten Mal gegenüberstehen.

Ehrlich, erfrischend komisch und tief berührend; Die New Yorker Dichterin Mia und der bekannte Neurowissenschaftler Boris haben eine Ehekrise. Boris möchte eine "Pause". Mia stellt fest, dass die Pause vollere Brüste hat als sie und überdies Boris’ Laborassistentin ist. Nach einem Nervenzusammenbruch braucht sie eine Pause, fährt allein in ihre Geburtsstadt Bowden, Minnesota, mietet ein möbliertes Haus und verbringt den Sommer in der Nähe ihrer fast neunzigjährigen Mutter.

Back by popular demand, Jennifer Egan ( A Visit from the Goon Squad), Siri Hustvedt ( The Blazing World), and Margot Livesey ( The Flight of Gemma Hardy) revisit Gustave Flaubert's classic in a lively discussion. With a reading by Amanda Quaid ( Pericles at the Public Theater).

Hustvedt displays her expansive intellect and interdisciplinary knowledge in this collection that moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to artistic mothers, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, and Louise Bourgeois, to the broader meanings of maternal in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority. Mothers, Fathers, and Others is a polymath’s journey into urgent questions about familial love and hate, human prejudice and cruelty, and the transformative power of art.

Harriet Burden ist die Frau eines einflussreichen New Yorker Galeristen. Nach dessen vorzeitigem Tod beginnt sie ein heimliches Experiment: eine Karriere als Installationskünstlerin, die sich hinter dem angeblichen Werk dreier männlicher "Masken" verbirgt, das in Wahrheit sie selbst erschaffen hat. Doch der Faustische Handel schlägt fehl - einer dieser Maskenmänner, selbst ein bekannter Künstler, durchkreuzt ihr Rollenspiel und setzt sein eigenes dagegen. Es kommt zum Kampf zweier widerstreitender großer Geister - einem Kampf auf Leben und Tod.

With The Blazing World, internationally best­selling author Siri Hustvedt returns to the New York art world in her most masterful and urgent novel since What I Loved. Hustvedt, who has long been celebrated for her “beguiling, lyrical prose” ( The Sunday Times Books, London), tells the provocative story of the artist Harriet Burden. After years of watching her work ignored or dismissed by critics, Burden conducts an experiment she calls Maskings: She presents her own art behind three male masks, concealing her female identity.