by Siri Hustvedt · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781444779639
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«The Blazing World» is the novel by Siri Hustvedt, published by Hodder & Stoughton in paperback, in English.
Harriet Burden, an artist ignored by the art world, exhibits under three male names to prove that success depends on the signature. When she reveals the deception, some still attribute her last exhibition to the artist Rune. Through notebooks and testimonies, the novel addresses gender, identity, and the perception of art.
The novel was shortlisted for the 2014 Booker Prize and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction.
For readers of literary fiction interested in art and gender issues.
Siri Hustvedt is an American novelist and essayist. Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fiction. Her books include The Blindfold (1992), The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996), What I Loved (2003), for which she is best known, A Plea for Eros (2006), The Sorrows of an American (2008), The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (2010), The Summer Without Men (2011), Living, Thinking, Looking (2012), The Blazing World (2014), Memories of the Future (2019), and Ghost Stories (2026). What I Loved and The Summer Without Men were international bestsellers. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.
