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""Sometime during my first week in New York City, I was standing in the tiny student room I had rented, and I turned to look at myself in the small mirror over the sink. I knew the person I was looking at was myself, and yet there was an alien quality to my reflection, an otherness that brought with it feelings of exuberance and celebration. All at once, I was looking at a stranger. In this illuminating and absorbing collection of essays, Siri Hustvedt explores many of the themes that preoccupy her novels : identity and memory, sexuality and mortality, psychology, love and the power of imagination. But here she offers her personal experience -as daughter, sister, mother, and wife, student, reader and writer -to illustrate fundamental aspects of our lives as individuals and social beings in the modern world. She draws, too, on the work of Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Charles Dickens, probing their insights into human nature. Wise, honest and luminously intelligent, this is a book that invites us to look afresh at ourselves and the universe we inhabit."@en
""Sometime during my first week in New York City, I was standing in the tiny student room I had rented, and I turned to look at myself in the small mirror over the sink. I knew the person I was looking at was myself, and yet there was an alien quality to my reflection, an otherness that brought with it feelings of exuberance and celebration. All at once, I was looking at a stranger. In this illuminating and absorbing collection of essays, Siri Hustvedt explores many of the themes that preoccupy her novels : identity and memory, sexuality and mortality, psychology, love and the power of imagination. But here she offers her personal experience -as daughter, sister, mother, and wife, student, reader and writer -to illustrate fundamental aspects of our lives as individuals and social beings in the modern world. She draws, too, on the work of Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Charles Dickens, probing their insights into human nature. Wise, honest and luminously intelligent, this is a book that invites us to look afresh at ourselves and the universe we inhabit."
"From the author of the international bestseller What I Loved, a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and writers. Whether her subject is growing up in Minnesota, cross-dressing, or the novel, Hustvedt's nonfiction, like her fiction, defies easy categorization, elegantly combining intellect, emotion, wit, and passion. With a light touch and consummate clarity, she undresses the cultural prejudices that veil both literature and life and explores the multiple personalities that inevitably inhabit a writer's mind. Is it possible for a woman in the twentieth century to endorse the corset, and at the same time approach with authority what it is like to be a man' Hustvedt does. Writing with rigorous honesty about her own divided self, and how this has shaped her as a writer, she also approaches the works of others--Fitzgerald, Dickens, and Henry James--with revelatory insight, and a practitioner's understanding of their art."@en
"Reflecting on life, love and literature, this is a collection of essays by the author of "What I Loved". Here, she addresses many of the themes explored in her novels - identity, sexual attraction, relationships, family, mental illness, the power of the imagination, a sense of belonging, and mortality."

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"En bønn for eros"
"Una súplica para Eros : ensayos"@es
"Being a man : Essays"
"Being a man : essays"
"A plea for Eros : essays"
"Plaidoyer pour Éros : essais"
"A plea for Eros"@en
"A plea for Eros"
"A plea for eros essays"@en
"A plea for eros"
"Una Súplica para Eros : ensayos"
"En bøn for Eros : essays"@da

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