A Plea for Eros: Essays

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.

• Author
• Siri Hustvedt

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 240

• Publisher
• Picador

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-312-42553-1

• EAN
• 9780312425531

• Genres
• essays, psychology, american, memoir, art

• Release date
• 2005