Yonder
essays
by Siri Hustvedt
The six pieces in Yonder, Hustvedt's first book of essays, are all meditations on the complex relationship between art and the world. The title piece is a personal essay on memory and place, which investigates the images we retain from our lives, the lives of others in the world, and the lives of characters in books. In "Vermeer's Annunciation," Hustvedt gives an entirely original interpretation of the Vermeer painting Woman with a Pearl Necklace.
In "Ghosts at the Table," she examines the essence of still life as a genre in painting from Cotan and Chardin to Philip Guston. The other essays consist of a long piece about Dickens, a reassessment of The Great Gatsby, and a witty and provocative assault on contemporary pieties entitled "A Plea for Eros."
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Nov 01, 1999, CIRCE, Circe Ediciones, S.L.U.
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