Siri Hustvedt has just turned 69, become a grandmother and reissued The Dazzling World. Author of multiple novels and prestigious essays, she addresses everything from sociology to psychology or neuroscience.
She is now working on a novel about eugenics, the discipline that aspires to modify genetic inheritance to improve a race or species. "It is the hardest part of getting older, seeing your loved ones die," she says. "You can think of time as a circle in which the chalk continues to turn for generations"