Siri Hustvedt: Summer Without Men
Summer Without Men
Buch
- A Novel
- Macmillan USA, 03/2011
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780312570606
- Bestellnummer: 8798804
- Umfang: 182 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr: 2011
- Gewicht: 194 g
- Maße: 211 x 144 mm
- Stärke: 17 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 15.3.2011
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Kurzbeschreibung
Verspielt, komisch, erotisch - die neuen Seiten einer großen Schriftstellerin Fresh out of the hospital at age 55 following a breakdown brought on by her husband's departure for a young colleague referred to as "The Pause," award-winning poet and Columbia professor Mia Fredricksen flees Brooklyn to spend the summer in her Minnesota hometown. There she is in the company of her mother and four other feisty old ladies, the young mother next door, and the seven hormone-addled pubescent girls enrolled in her poetry class at the local arts guild. Mia sorts out her agony as only a scorned woman with a Ph. D. in comparative literature can - by pouring it through a sieve of poets, philosophers, and critical theorists. At times these references eclipse the presence of the narrator herself, but even this absence becomes the basis for philosophical rumination, as Mia corresponds online with the anonymous - and at times abusive - Mr. Nobody. Though initially trapped in a claustrophobic cerebral solitude, Mia opens up, and, in so doing, lets in some much needed air to a constricted narrative, so that instead of being another novel of a woman on the brink, this becomes an adroit take on love, men and women, and girls and women.Beschreibung
Die New Yorker Dichterin Mia und der Neurowissenschaftler Boris haben eine Ehekrise. Boris möchte eine "Pause". Mia stellt fest, dass die Pause viel vollere Brüste hat als sie und überdies Boris Laborassistentin ist.Nach einer klinischen Depression braucht sie eine Pause, fährt allein in ihre Geburtsstadt in Minnesota und verbringt den Sommer in der Nähe ihrer Mutter, die, mit neunzig noch recht aktiv, im Heim lebt.
Ansonsten brütet sie über den untreuen Boris und die Männer im Allgemeinen. Mit Wut im Bauch und dem Herzen auf der Zunge notiert sie zum Thema Liebe, Ehe und Sex, was ihr einfällt. (Und das ist, neben Gedichten und einem erotischen Tagebuch, eine Menge!)
Die Kur schlägt an, und siehe da, langsam entdeckt sie sich und das Leben neu. Was für ein Genuss, was für eine Befreiung! Selbst Boris merkt das in der Ferne und schickt zerknirschte Mails.
Siri Hustvedts neuer Roman ist ein hinreißendes, blitzgescheites Buch über das Leben von Frauen heute. Von der Geburt über den Sexus bis hin zum Tod, die scharfzüngige Mia nimmt kein Blatt vor den Mund. So erfrischend, so komisch kann Beziehungsanalyse sein und das ganz ohne Männer!
Klappentext
"And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at the end of The Awful Truth? There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren't there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if you ask me. A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment."Mia Fredrickson, the wry, vituperative, tragic comic, poet narrator of The Summer Without Men, has been forced to reexamine her own life. One day, out of the blue, after thirty years of marriage, Mia's husband, a renowned neuroscientist, asks her for a "pause." This abrupt request sends her reeling and lands her in a psychiatric ward. The June following Mia's release from the hospital, she returns to the prairie town of her childhood, where her mother lives in an old people's home. Alone in a rented house, she rages and fumes and bemoans her sorry fate. Slowly, however, she is drawn into the lives of those around her-her mother and her close friends,"the Five Swans," and her young neighbor with two small children and a loud angry husband-and the adolescent girls in her poetry workshop whose scheming and petty cruelty carry a threat all their own.
From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved comes Siri Hustvedt's provocative, witty, and revelatory novel about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old question of sameness and difference between the sexes.