Siri Hustvedt

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1955年ミネソタ州生まれ。ポール・オースターの妻。

Siri Hustvedt (born February 19, 1955) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet.

■Biography
Hustvedt was born in Northfield, Minnesota, and holds a B.A. in history from St. Olaf College and a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University, where her thesis on Charles Dickens was entitled Figures of Dust: A Reading of Our Mutual Friend.
Hustvedt has mainly made her name as a novelist, but she has also produced a book of poetry, and has had short stories and essays on various subjects published in (among others) The Art of the Essay, 1999, The Best American Short Stories 1990 and 1991, The Paris Review, Yale Review, and Modern Painters. Like Auster, Hustvedt employs a use of repetitive themes or symbols throughout her work. Most notably the use of certain types of voyeurism, often linking objects of the dead to characters who are relative strangers to the deceased characters (most notable in various facits in her novels "The Blindfold" and "The Enchantment of Lily Dahl") and the exploration of identity.
She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, the writer Paul Auster, and their daughter.

■Works
Novels
The Blindfold (1992)
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996)
What I Loved (2003)
The Sorrows of an American (in progress)

Poetry
Reading to You (1983)

Essay collections
Yonder (1998)
Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting (2005)
A Plea for Eros (2005)