Siri Hustvedt has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 7 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 4 ratings. The most-rated is What I Loved.
Thalia Book Club: A Celebration of Jane Austen with author Karen Joy Fowler and other Janeites
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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.
©2006 The Symphony Space, Inc. (P)2006 The Symphony Space, Inc.
The Blazing World
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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. The three solo shows are successful, but when Burden finally steps forward triumphantly to reveal herself as the artist behind the exhibitions, there are critics who doubt her. The public scandal turns on the final exhibition, initially shown as the work of acclaimed artist Rune, who denies Burden’s role in its creation. What no one doubts, however, is that the two artists were intensely involved with each other. As Burden’s journals reveal, she and Rune found themselves locked in a charged and dangerous game that ended with the man’s bizarre death. Ingeniously presented as a collection of texts compiled after Burden’s death, The Blazing World unfolds from multiple perspectives. The exuberant Burden speaks—in all her joy and fury—through extracts from her own notebooks, while critics, fans, family members, and others offer their own conflicting opinions of who she was, and where the truth lies. From one of the most ambitious and internationally renowned writers of her generation, The Blazing World is a polyphonic tour de force. An intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle, it explores the deceptive powers of prejudice, money, fame, and desire. Emotionally intense, intellectually rigorous, ironic, and playful, Hustvedt’s new novel is a bold, rich masterpiece, one that will be remembered for years to come.
©2014 Siri Hustvedt (P)2014 Simon & Schuster Audio
What I Loved
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In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a New York gallery. He buys the work and tracks down its creator, Bill Weschler, and the two men embark on a lifelong friendship. This is the story of their intense and troubled relationship, of the women in their lives and their work, of art and hysteria, love and seduction and their sons - born the same year but whose lives take very different paths.
©2018 Siri Hustvedt (P)2018 Audible, Ltd
Minder om fremtiden
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"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? Fyrre år senere er S.H. en etableret og feteret forfatter. Da hun flytter sin aldrende mor til en ny bolig, finder hun sin gamle notesbog og det første udkast til en aldrig færdiggjort roman. Dette giver hende anledning til at se tilbage på sit liv og sit yngre jeg på tværs af fire årtier. Den modne kvinde ser med forundring og nysgerrighed på sit eget, unge selv. Siri Hustvedt (f. 1955) har norsk-amerikanske forældre og er vokset op i Minnesota. Hun har en ph.d. i engelsk litteratur fra Columbia University og underviser i psykiatri på det medicinske fakultet på Cornell University. Hun har skrevet en digtsamling, seks romaner, fire essaysamlinger og et non-fiktionsværk. Hendes seneste roman "Den flammende verden" var nomineret til Man Booker Prize og blev tildelt Los Angeles Times Book Prize i 2014. Hun er en eftertragtet foredragsholder inden for kunst, litteratur og videnskab. Hun bor i Brooklyn, New York, sammen med sin mand.
©2019 Lindhardt og Ringhof. Translated by Rasmus Hastrup (P)2019 Lindhardt og Ringhof
Recuerdos del futuro
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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: su primer amor, los esbozos de su primera novela, la escena literaria que se abre ante ella, y, sobre todo, la obsesión por su vecina, una mujer joven que cada noche entona extraños monólogos en su apartamento y que la protagonista anota febrilmente en sus cuadernos. Conforme estas confesiones se vuelven más perturbadoras, su interés por descubrir la verdad detrás de la puerta de al lado también se intensifica. Cuarenta años después de aquello, esas notas y diarios sirven a la escritora para reflexionar sobre temas como el paso del tiempo, el deseo o el papel de la mujer en la sociedad, y para constatar que son los recuerdos del pasado los que en gran medida conforman quienes seremos en el futuro. Entre la metaliteratura y el feminismo, entre el thriller psicológico y el bildungsroman, Siri Hustvedt vuelve a cuestionar nuestras relaciones con la realidad, la capacidad del arte para cambiar nuestra percepción del mundo, los límites de la ficción y los enigmas de la personalidad y la memoria.
©2019 Siri Hustvedt (P)2020 Editorial Planeta, S. A., Seix Barral
Memories of the Future
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A provocative, exuberant novel about time, memory, desire, and the imagination from the internationally best-selling and prize-winning author of The Blazing World, Memories of the Future tells the story of a young Midwestern woman’s first year in New York City in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious neighbor, Lucy Brite. 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. Ingeniously juxtaposing the various texts, S.H. measures what she remembers against what she wrote that year and has since forgotten to create a dialogue between selves across decades. The encounter both collapses time and reframes its meanings in the present. Elaborately structured, intellectually rigorous, urgently paced, poignant, and often wildly funny, Memories of the Future brings together themes that have made Hustvedt among the most celebrated novelists working today: the fallibility of memory; gender mutability; the violence of patriarchy; the vagaries of perception; the ambiguous borders between sensation and thought, sanity and madness; and our dependence on primal drives such as sex, love, hunger, and rage.
©2019 Siri Hustvedt (P)2019 Simon & Schuster