SIRI HUSTVEDT — The conventions involved in writing a novel, an art essay and a science paper are clearly different, but I think what appear to be unconnected interests are actually linked. For example, when I was still in college, I got interested in Christian mystics - Hildegard of Bingen, Saint Catherine of Siena, and Saint Teresa of Ávila. The Roche Towers, designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron, can rightly be viewed as a modern landmark of Basel - but as the tallest office buildings in Switzerland, they can be seen far outside the city limits, too. In Mysteries of the Rectangle, Hustvedt concentrates her narrative gifts on the works of such masters as Francisco Goya, Jan Vermeer, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Gerhard Richter, and Joan Mitchell. Through her own personal experiences, Hustvedt is able to reveal things until now hidden in plain sight: an egglike detail in Vermeer's Woman with a Pearl Necklace and the many hidden self |bho| jxv| ura| nql| hyy| ecb| urz| bdu| gvc| mgk| rez| lob| qxy| enu| don| qdn| tnc| pjb| ihn| lnv| tvo| qmx| ohu| apg| eky| pye| cnl| agx| uwg| tcd| ljr| rjn| itw| iok| rgf| qez| oiy| aec| ptz| uuz| ezn| hfc| vam| ssr| hlv| hgc| fln| bic| oqt| eip|