The Blazing World (54 page)

About the Author

Siri Hustvedt was born in 1955 in Northfield, Minnesota. She has a PhD from Columbia University in English and is the internationally acclaimed author of five novels,
The Blindfold
,
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl
,
What I Loved
,
The Sorrows of an American
, and
The Summer Without Men
, as well as a growing body of nonfiction, including
A Plea for Eros
;
Mysteries of the Rectangle
;
Essays on Painting
;
Living, Thinking, Looking
; and an interdisciplinary investigation of the mind-body problem,
The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves
. She has given lectures on artists and theories of art at the Prado in Madrid, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. She has also lectured at international conferences on neuropsychoanalysis, neuroethics, and neurophysiology. In 2011, she delivered the thiry-eighth annual Sigmund Freud Lecture in Vienna. In 2012, she was a Gutenberg Fellow at Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. The same year she won the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities.

Also by Siri Hustvedt

F
ICTION

The Blindfold

The Enchantment of Lily Dahl

What I Loved

The Sorrows of an American

The Summer Without Men

N
ONFICTION

A Plea for Eros

Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

Living, Thinking, Looking

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Jacket design by Christopher Lin

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hustvedt, Siri.
The blazing world / Siri Hustvedt.
pages cm
1. Women artists—Fiction. 2. Teachers—Fiction. 3. Death—Fiction.
4. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
PS3558.U813B53 2014
813’.54—dc23
2013027172

ISBN 978-1-4767-4723-1
ISBN 978-1-4767-4725-5 (ebook)

Contents

Editor’s Introduction

Harriet Burden: Notebook C (memoir fragment)

Cynthia Clark (interview with former owner of the Clark Gallery, NYC, April 6, 2009

Maisie Lord (edited transcript)

Harriet Burden: Notebook C

Oswald Case (written statement)

Rachel Briefman (written statement)

A Compendium of Thirteen: Characters, a Non Sequitur, a Confession, a Riddle, and Memories for H.B.

Harriet Burden: Notebook

Rosemary Lerner (written statement)