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Author | Siri Hustvedt |
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Language | English |
Publisher |
Simon & Schuster (US) Sceptre (UK) |
Publication place | United States |
Memories of the Future is a 2019 novel by American writer Siri Hustvedt. The novel concerns a narrator, known as S.H. or by her nickname, "Minnesota", who discovers her journal from 40-years prior to the novel's events.
Hustvedt has said she "[...] actively [hoped] to undermine" the assumption that autobiographical fiction by women tends to be less imaginative than equivalent works by men. [1]
The novel contains autobiographical elements. [2] Writing for the New York Times, Judith Shulevitz referred to the novel as an example of autofiction. [2] The novel contains drawings by Hustvedt of several men, including Marcel Duchamp and Donald Trump. [1]
According to literary review aggregator Book Marks, the novel received mostly "Positive" reviews. [3] In a review for The Financial Times, Catherine Taylor compared the work to the "best" of the filmography of American director David Lynch. [4] Critics highlighted Hustvedt's depiction of New York City, with Sam Sacks crediting the depiction of S.H.'s relationship with a neighbor, Lucy, as accurate to the experience of living in a large city. [5] In her review for The Guardian, Sarah Crown praised the inclusion of the city, writing that Hustvedt "joyously depicts" New York as "hot, dirty and cacophonous". [6]
Writing for The Los Angeles Review of Books, Elena Goukassian compared Memories of the Future unfavorably to Hustvedt's debut novel, The Blindfold. [7] Goukassian praised The Blindfold for "leaving readers to draw [their] own conclusions" while writing that Memories of the Future "suffers from over-explanation". [7] Goukassian attributes this tendency to the " Trump era", during which she writes that there "[...] appears to be a wider trend among writers and artists of all kinds in creating works that drill their themes into the minds of their audiences". [7]
The novel was long-listed for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. [8]
![]() First edition (US) | |
Author | Siri Hustvedt |
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Language | English |
Publisher |
Simon & Schuster (US) Sceptre (UK) |
Publication place | United States |
Memories of the Future is a 2019 novel by American writer Siri Hustvedt. The novel concerns a narrator, known as S.H. or by her nickname, "Minnesota", who discovers her journal from 40-years prior to the novel's events.
Hustvedt has said she "[...] actively [hoped] to undermine" the assumption that autobiographical fiction by women tends to be less imaginative than equivalent works by men. [1]
The novel contains autobiographical elements. [2] Writing for the New York Times, Judith Shulevitz referred to the novel as an example of autofiction. [2] The novel contains drawings by Hustvedt of several men, including Marcel Duchamp and Donald Trump. [1]
According to literary review aggregator Book Marks, the novel received mostly "Positive" reviews. [3] In a review for The Financial Times, Catherine Taylor compared the work to the "best" of the filmography of American director David Lynch. [4] Critics highlighted Hustvedt's depiction of New York City, with Sam Sacks crediting the depiction of S.H.'s relationship with a neighbor, Lucy, as accurate to the experience of living in a large city. [5] In her review for The Guardian, Sarah Crown praised the inclusion of the city, writing that Hustvedt "joyously depicts" New York as "hot, dirty and cacophonous". [6]
Writing for The Los Angeles Review of Books, Elena Goukassian compared Memories of the Future unfavorably to Hustvedt's debut novel, The Blindfold. [7] Goukassian praised The Blindfold for "leaving readers to draw [their] own conclusions" while writing that Memories of the Future "suffers from over-explanation". [7] Goukassian attributes this tendency to the " Trump era", during which she writes that there "[...] appears to be a wider trend among writers and artists of all kinds in creating works that drill their themes into the minds of their audiences". [7]
The novel was long-listed for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. [8]