Her dissertation on Charles Dickens, Figures of Dust: A Reading of Our Mutual Friend, is an exploration of language and identity in the novel, with particular emphasis on Dickens's metaphors of fragmentation, his use of pronouns, and their relation to a narrative, dialogical conception of self. She completed her PhD in English at Columbia in 1986. Career Ī small collection of poems, Reading to You, appeared in 1982 with Station Hill Press. Hustvedt lived in poverty during her college years, and resorted to an emergency loan from the university to survive. Her first published work was a poem in The Paris Review. She moved to New York City to attend Columbia University as a graduate student in 1978. Particularly impressed by Dickens's David Copperfield, she decided that she wanted to make literature her profession after finishing it. She started writing at 13 after a family trip to Reykjavík, where she read various works of classic literature. Hustvedt at LiteratureXchange Festival, Denmark 2019ĭaughter of professor Lloyd Hustvedt, Siri attended public school in her hometown, Northfield, Minnesota, and received a degree from the Cathedral School in Bergen, Norway, in 1973.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |