Wife, sister, mother, lover

What more then thirty-eight other commentators here have left their testimony? First of it seems important to say that this beautiful text is a true feminist book, not in the sense of a militant work, combat and settling of accounts but a book that testifies to the female of the state of women today (in the middle sociocultural white, Protestant and upper middle classes of the United States), and that he does with as much sensitivity as dintelligence.

This text not only caters to women. On the contrary, just as it is anchored in a marital crisis, this text is a much introspection that it is for men, a call to the share.

The story of Siri Hustvedt is inhabited by poetry, the power of words, the desire danalyse (philosophy, psychoanalysis). The multiplicity of female characters has a harem which reflect the facets of the soul and the feminine psychology. And that lovable characters! To name a few, the old Abigail and secrets amusements, little Alice, Lola and neighboring Flora girl with her imaginary world, of course the mother

Maybe a little quote to conclude: "Thirty years, this is long, and senracine marriage, takes an almost incestuous aspect, subject to the complex rhythm of feelings, dialogue and associations. We had reached the point where a story, a story of a dinner was heard at the same time born the same thought in our heads, and the question was simply which of us lexprimerait aloud. "(P. 92) Extract which echoes a little further, p. 121, this: "Do you remember (I wrote to Boris) tonight, there are two years, where we realized that we had to think exactly the same thing, not obvious at all, an idea rather eccentric which had arisen in us under the effect of some common catalyst, and you mas said, "You know, if we lived together for another hundred years, we would become the same person. "?