Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays by Siri Hustvedt.
The book is divided into three sections: the essays in Living draw directly from Hustvedt's life; those in Thinking explore memory, emotion, and the imagination; and the pieces in Looking are about visual art. And yet, the same questions recur throughout the collection.
Editions for Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays: 1250009529 (Paperback published in 2012), 8433963619 (Paperback published in 2014), 144473265X (Paperback.
We will also be hosting an interview with the brilliant US novelist and essayist Siri Hustvedt, who knows a thing or two about psychology and its part in the creative process. Her highly original, thought-provoking new book, Living, Thinking, Looking, is our book of the month in the July issue.
The categories invoked in her title—personal essays (Living), intellectual puzzles (Thinking), investigations of art (Looking)—indicate her broad scope; their underlying unity rests on Hustvedt’s consuming interest in connections: between emotion and intellect, memory and imagination, mother and child, artist and audience.
From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved and The Summer Without Men, a dazzling collection of essays written with Siri Hustvedt's customary intelligence, wit and ability to convey complex ideas in a clear and lively way.Divided into three sections - Living, which draws on Siri's own life; Thinking, on memory, emotion and the imagination; and Looking, on art and artists - the.
The book is divided into three sections: the essays in Living draw directly from Hustvedt’s life; those in Thinking explore memory, emotion, and the imagination; and the pieces in Looking are about visual art. And yet, the same questions recur throughout the collection.
She is also the author of the poetry collection Reading To You, and four collections of essays -Yonder, Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting, A Plea for Eros and Living, Thinking, Looking, as well as the memoir The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves.Born in Minnesota, Siri Hustvedt now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Living, Thinking, Looking by Siri Hustvedt From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved and The Summer Without Men, a dazzling collection of essays written with Siri Hustvedt’s customary intelligence, wit and ability to convey complex ideas in a clear and lively way.
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Living, Thinking, Looking, By Siri Hustvedt. Despite her reading in medical texts, Hustvedt aspires to write in lay terms.. The same passion impels the essays and reflections collected here.
Siri Hustvedt - Living Thinking Looking I have enjoyed reading a number of Siri Hustvedt’s novels and non-fiction. I appreciate her interesting, inspiring writing and her intelligence. “Living Thinking Looking”, Hustvedt’s collection of 32 essays is, in my view, one of the best series of essays I have read.
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She is also the author of the poetry collection Reading To You, and four collections of essays -Yonder, Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting, A Plea for Eros and Living, Thinking, Looking, as well as the memoir The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves. Born in Minnesota, Siri Hustvedt now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
A particular essay in Siri Hustvedt’s new collection Living, Thinking, Looking encapsulates much of what is equally intriguing and frustrating about her as an essayist. Called “Outside the Mirror,” the essay is a cogent reflection on self-consciousness and superficiality in even the most cultured of individuals.
The book is divided into three sections: the essays in Living draw directly from Hustvedt's life; those in Thinking explore memory, emotion, and the imagination; and the pieces in Looking are about visual art. And yet, the same questions recur throughout the collection. How do we see, remember, and feel?
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From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved and The Summer Without Men, a dazzling collection of essays written with Siri Hustvedt's customary intelligence, wit and ability to convey complex ideas in a clear and lively way. Divided into three sections - Living, which draws on Siri's own life; Thinking, on memory, emotion and the imagination; and Looking, on art and artists.