A Plea for Eros: Essays
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ISBN: 0312425538 / Publisher: Picador, December 2005
A thought-provoking collection of autobiographical and critical essays explores the world of writers and writing, providing thoughtful analyses of the works of Fitzgerald, Dickens, and Henry James, among others, as well as a study of the multiple personalities that inhabit a writer's mind and the cultural prejudices that shape both literature and life. Original. 15,000 first printing.
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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.
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