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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.
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A Plea for Eros, Siri Hustvedt
- Language
- Released
- 2006
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- A Plea for Eros
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Siri Hustvedt
- Publisher
- Sceptre
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 228
- ISBN10
- 0340839791
- ISBN13
- 9780340839799
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Social Sciences, True Stories, Psychological Topics, Literary Studies, Art, Psychology, USA, American Literature, Opinion Journalism & Essays, Literary Criticism
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- 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.