What I Loved is a deeply touching elegiac novel that mourns for the New York artistic life, which was of a time but now has gone--by extension, it is about all losses swept away by mischance and time. Half-blind and alone, Leo tells us of marriage and friendship, and makes the sheer fragility of what seemed forever not only his subject, but perhaps the only subject worth considering. Scholars Leo and his wife Erica admire, and befriend, artist Bill and his first and second wives--their respective sons Matthew and Mark grow up together until the first of a series of tragedies strikes. And things get gradually worse from then on, both because terrible things happen and because people do not get over them. Part of the strength of this impressive novel is its emotional intensity and part is the context in which those emotions exist; these are smart and talented people, even the children, and we luxuriate, even when things are at their worst, in the sheer intelligence they bring to bear on their situations. It is also impressive that, for Hustvedt, intelligence is an end in itself rather than something that prevents tragedy or makes it more bearable. This is a powerful book because everything Leo knows makes him ever more the victim of exquisite pain.
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Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt é uma escritora norte-americana de ascendência norueguesa. Bisneta de emigrantes noruegueses pelo lado do pai, Lloyd Hustvedt (destacado e galardoado professor de História Escandinavo-Americana), filha de uma emigrante norueguesa, Ester Vegan, Siri licenciou-se em História no St. Olaf College, doutorando-se em Literatura Inglesa na Universidade de Columbia (Nova Iorque), com a tese de dissertação Figures of Dust: A Reading of Our Mutual Friend, baseada na obra de Charles Dickens. Em 1981 casou-se com o escritor Paul Auster, com quem vive até hoje em Brooklyn, Nova Iorque. Da relação nasceu em 1987 a sua única filha, Sophie Auster (actriz e cantora). Seu primeiro romance, The blindfold, lançado em 1992, foi traduzido para dezesseis línguas. Siri também é poeta e ensaísta.
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Minnesota, Estados Unidos