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Original Title: The Blazing World
ISBN: 1476747237 (ISBN13: 9781476747231)
Edition Language: English
Characters: Harriet Burden, Felix Lord, Maisie Lord, Eliot Lord, Bruno Kleinfeld, Phineas Q. Eldridge, Rune.
Setting: New York City, New York(United States)
Literary Awards: Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2014), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2014), Kirkus Prize Nominee for Fiction (Finalist) (2014), Le Prix Transfuge du Meilluer Roman Americain (2014)
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Title:The Blazing World
Author:Siri Hustvedt
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
Pages:Pages: 368 pages
Published:March 11th 2014 by Simon Schuster
Categories:Fiction. Art. Feminism. Contemporary. Literary Fiction

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A brilliant, provocative novel about an artist who, after years of being ignored by the art world, conducts an experiment: she conceals her female identity behind three male fronts.

Presented as a collection of texts, edited and introduced by a scholar years after the artist's death, the book unfolds through extracts from Burden's notebooks and conflicting accounts from others about her life and work. Even after she steps forward to reveal herself as the force behind three solo shows, there are those who doubt she is responsible for the last exhibition, initially credited to the acclaimed artist Rune. No one doubts the two artists were involved with each other. According to Burden's journals, she and Rune found themselves locked in a charged and dangerous psychological game that ended with the man's bizarre death.

From one of the most ambitious and internationally celebrated writers of her generation, Hustvedt's The Blazing World is a polyphonic tour de force. It is also an intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle that addresses the shaping influences of prejudice, money, fame, and desire on what we see in one another. Emotionally intense, intellectually rigorous, ironic, and playful, this is a book you won't be able to put down.

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Some years ago I convinced a male book club buddy to try out Siri Hustvedt, whom I adore. He trustingly went out and bought The Sorrows of an American and What I Loved. Not only did he not like them, he called them melodramatic soap operas. I choked on my wine. It's one thing not to admire them, but to categorize them as soap operas? And this from a man who loved The Unbearable Lighness of Being. Well, I didn't bother to mention gender bias, nor offer to loan him my copy of Summer Without Men. I

I rarely get this far into a novel and then abandon it but believe me, it was a case of self-preservation. Hustvedt's latest book was infecting my mood and my every day. I have also rarely disliked a character as much as I disliked Harriet. She was just one big pot of roiling, churning resentment. And she just would not SHUT UP. She went on and on and on about how overlooked her art was, about what a clever trick she was playing on the art world. She was quite disdainful of her choice of the

Just before I was ready to write this review, I happened across an interesting statistic: at this years Whitney biennial, only 32 percent of the represented artists were women (down from four years ago when for the first time ever, over half of featured artists were women.)Siri Hustvedts latest book, The Blazing World, is spot-on when its main character, Harriet Burden, muses, I suspected that if I had come in another place, my work might have been embraced or, at least approached with greater

Pedantic. Dense. Alienating. For some reason this book brings this kind of food to mind: I can respect the studied, sophisticated, artistic intelligence it takes to create something like this, but its pretentiousness smothered the experience for me. I found myself stopping too often to wonder: "What exactly IS this?" and, "Why should I care?" the same way I would if a waiter presented me with a dish of meat flavored foam. This is surprising because Hustvedt's writing is always an overly

Wow. Need a few hours to think about my response.-------A day later some lingering responses, because I'm daunted by the number of well-written reviews already here on Goodreads:: I probably felt more comfortable in this novel than I did reading Kushner's Flamethrowers (also about the New York art scene) because I recognized many of Hustvedt's scholarly references if only by name. I had to think that Harriet's project of using three male artists as covers was bound to fail - to cause pain,

A very clever book about the art world, feminism, philosophy and neuroscience. The core story is about an artist, a rich widow who wants to prove that the artistic establishment discriminates against women, and particularly older women, and devises a scheme to exhibit her work presented as the work of younger males. The book presents itself as an academic treatise, a mixture of interviews, the artist's notebooks and the accounts of her friends, family and various other players. The notebooks in

My wife is currently reading this and just flipped over to me in bed saying: "you should read this, you'd like it - it has citations in it. And they are to made-up authors"...