“What am I seeing?” she asks while standing in front of Weeping Woman by Picasso, before studying the impact our first interactions and observations as babies have on us as adults and, then, the manner in which perceiving anything can alter the physical makeup of the brain. Hustvedt studies her own sense of perception alongside scientific and art theories of perception. Central to the book is the study of perception – perception of reality, fiction, other people. The result shifts between literary, gender, art and scientific theory, with brief glimpses of what might be best described as anti-memoir. Writing in the first person, Hustvedt weaves the academic with the personal.
Here, in this sprawling collection of essays, these topics meet in a philosophical and theoretical setting.
F eminism, neuroscience, psychoanalysis and art find a place in most, if not all, of Hustvedt’s works, be they novels, non-fiction or poetry.
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