Siri Hustvedt
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| Title | : | The Blindfold |
| Author | : | Siri Hustvedt |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 2003 by Picador USA (first published 1992) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Literature. American. Novels. New York |
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Iris Vegan, a young, impoverished graduate student from the Midwest, finds herself entangled with four powerful but threatening characters as she tries to adjust to life in New York City. Mr. Morning, an inscrutable urban recluse, employs Iris to tape-record verbal descriptions of objects that belonged to a murder victim. George, a photographer, takes an eerie portrait of Iris, which then acquires a strange life of its own, appearing and disappearing without warning around the city. After a series of blinding migraines, Iris ends up in a hospital room with Mrs. O., a woman who has lost her mind and memory to a stroke, but who nevertheless retains both the strength and energy to torment her fellow patient. And finally, there is Professor Rose, Iris’s teacher and eventually her lover. While working with him on the translation of a German novella called The Brutal Boy, she discovers in its protagonist, Klaus, a vehicle for her own transformation and ventures out into the city again--this time dressed as a man.
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| Original Title: | The Blindfold |
| ISBN: | 031242275X (ISBN13: 9780312422752) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://sirihustvedt.net/ |
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Ratings: 3.71 From 2940 Users | 236 ReviewsDiscuss About Books The Blindfold
This is not a book I would choose for myself, but I'm glad I read it with a group. The book is surreal and disturbing, but not necessarily in a good way, although it is very well written. I can't identify with the protagonist at all, particularly her complete surrender of identity to men, even a fictional one. However, the descriptions of her migraines and the distortions in perception are brilliant, and are a perfect metaphor for the distorted perceptions experienced by the protagonist in eachBeing obsessed with Hustvedt lately and going through almost every novel and essay she wrote I expected this book to be weaker than the rest of her work just because this was her debut novel. I wasn't far off the target as this is probably my least favorite work of hers yet, even though it's a pretty good novel.The first part seems a bit wobbly and I wasn't quite sure where this leads to and if I even like it until after the first half of it. Then it all started flowing better, the character
I'm not sure what I just read, but I was entranced and disturbed, which is always great in my book.
Read for Tales of the City module. This was my first Hustvedt and there was so much inside this novel that it's going to take me a while to fully digest everything inside it.I preferred the first two 'parts' over the other two - there seemed to be more structure and intrigue in them, and they reminded of specific parts of The New York Trilogy. The characterisation during the first half was haunting and to be honest this is the part I would be most likely to return to if I was to ever study this
Absolutely baffling. Words get sticky and weak when I try to talk about this tiny dense novel. I mostly think that very few authors manage to blur the boundaries between reader and character as Siri does, and the most amazing thing is, she doesn't do that via empathy but distance and estrangement. She has the cold, miniature-obsessed heart of a scientist and the whimsical, self-critical head of a mature woman who hasn't stopped being a young girl. Her sense of humor is mixed with an insatiable
The Blindfold by Siri Hustvedt tells the story of a young graduate student, Iris, and her relationships with four very different (but all very odd) men. The book was especially meaningful to me since I went to Columbia in the neighborhood where the story takes place.Iris is changed by each relationship she participates in. She wears the suit of a friend's brother and travels the street in disguise as a man called Klaus, the name of a character in a book she translates for one of her partners, a
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