Don't let the first chapter stop you from reading The Blazing World, by Siri Hustvedt

Really enjoying Siri Hustvedt's THE BLAZING WORLD: a novel about an embittered female artist who eventually achieves fame by using male stand-ins. Interestingly, the satirical angle is really downplayed--it's just taken as a given that a male artist is more likely to achieve success than a female artist, and, thus, the same art will be taken more seriou…