An Interview with Siri Hustvedt
Résumé
Siri Hustvedt is an American novelist and essay writer whose work has been translated into many languages. Her first novel, The Blindfold, was published in 1992, and her latest to date, The Blazing World, in 2014. She has published collections of essays on art (Mysteries of the Rectangle and the recent A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind) and broader subjects, as her collection’s title Living, Thinking, Looking (2012) suggests. Apart from writing fiction, Siri Hustvedt is involved in philosophical and transdisciplinary research, as well as in teaching a seminar for psychiatrists.
On October 20th, 2015, Siri Hustvedt was in Grenoble to receive an honorary Doctorate from Stendhal University (now part of Université Grenoble Alpes). The following interview was recorded in my office on the following day, and was then edited via email over a few months, until the recent changes in American politics prompted Siri to add a personal note at the end.