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Siri Hustvedt’s intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle explores how prejudice, fame, money and desire influence our perceptions of each other. The Blazing World is a masterful novel about one woman’s struggle to be seen.Artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from the New York art establishment, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts who exhibit her work as their own. And yet, even after she has unmasked herself, there are those who refuse to believe she is the woman behind the men. An intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle presented as a collection of texts, including Harriet’s journals, assembled after her death, this “glorious mashup of storytelling and scholarship” (San Francisco Chronicle) unfolds from multiple perspectives as Harriet’s critics, fans, family, and others offer their own conflicting opinions of where the truth lies. "The Blazing World offers a spirited romp...constructed as a Nabokovian cat's cradle....Hustvedt's portrait of the artist as a middle-aged widow is searingly fresh. It's rare to encounter a female protagonist who throws her weight around quite so grandiloquently as Har

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Author

Siri Hustvedt

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781476747231

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Art

Rating

4 / 5 (779 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14