Siri Hustvedt is the internationally acclaimed author of five novels, What I Loved, The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, The Summer Without Men, and The Sorrows of An American. She has also published a growing body of nonfiction, including three collections of essays, Yonder, A Plea for Eros, and Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting.
Siri Hustvedt
Articles by Siri Hustvedt
Friday May 23
Why One Story and Not Another?
The word “idea” catapults us instantly into philosophy. What does it mean to have an idea? What is an idea? For Plato ideal forms were more real than our world of flux and perceptual sensation. For Plutarch an idea was by its very nature bodiless.