I'm extremely happy to be with you in New York today for our tenth Rendez-Vous Littéraire Rue Cambon.
The first one to be held in the US.
Tonight, we are thrilled to welcome the writer Siri Hustvedt and discuss her work alongside writers Rachel Eliza Griffiths and Erica Wagner.
Siri, you are the author of a poetry collection, multiple novels, and prestigious award-winning essays.
It is difficult, and you'll understand why... very difficult to summarize your work in only a few lines, so prolific it is, not to mention the many subjects, universes and emotions it spans.
You are passionate about so many topics, about neuroscience, psychology, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, literature, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, ethnography, painting, cinema, poetry, music... It's like the list is endless!
In your research, you question the ambivalence of our relationship to motherhood, suffering, mental health, body-shaming in Western culture, the sexist prejudice that persists when a woman is in a position of power, whether it be in creative or academic fields, and many other burning topics agitating our society today.
Thank you so much, Charlotte.
And I am delighted to be here in my native city of New York to host this wonderful event with Chanel, part of the Rendez-Vous Littéraire Rue Cambon.
Siri is a New Yorker too, though one who came here from Minnesota a few years ago now.
