The Blazing World

In a dazzling literary experiment, Hustvedt has created a brilliant and provocative work that challenges the very nature of creativity, identity and gender. Through a captivating blend of fiction and scholarship, including a fictional scholar's afterword that questions whether this character was even real, this book unfolds through extracts from Burden's notebooks and conflicting accounts from others about her life, art and love affair with the celebrated artist Rune Olsen. An expansive novel about identity, gender and creativity told through multiple voices in multiple styles, it is at once playful and profound, personal and philosophical. Truly one of a kind. '