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Poet Hustvedt's first novel is unabashedly cerebral, a disturbing and disarming fiction that explores the mysteries of identity. It's a postmodernist puzzle with a queasy eroticism and hints of perversion, and owes much to the work of Beckett, DeLillo, and her husband, Paul Auster. But Hustvedt adds to their explorations in silence and unspeakability her distinctly feminine voice: innocent, intimate, victimized. These four related narratives circle around the life of Iris Vegan, a distraught and hypersensitive graduate student in literature at Columbia. A beautiful, blue-eyed blond from the Midwest, she's continually at the mercy of others, mostly men who shroud themselves in mystery. Iris's first story finds her working as an assistant to a strange writer, a collector of women's discarded objects, who asks her to record her observations so that he may reconstruct their previous owners. After playing this bizarre Scheherazade, Iris is unalterably changed, but not as dramatically as in her second narrative, in which a photographer's portrait of her proves an invasion of her privacy. Her boyfriend at the time admits that cruelty makes him ``feel more alive.'' As her personality begins to disintegrate, Iris (in the third piece) admits to minor hallucinations, which land her in the hospital whacked out on Thorazine and tormented by one of her roommates, a withered old woman who also desires her in some strange way. To demonstrate further that ``distortion is part of desire,'' Iris then alters herself, taking on the role of a brutal boy, a role she has adopted from a German novella she co-translates with her professor/lover. Roaming the city in drag, she indulges her fantasies until the much older professor catches her in disguise. In playful ``blindness,'' she loses all sense of self but also turns out to be as mysterious as all her tormentors, so that we wonder, just who is playing with whom? Hustvedt brings her dark urban landscape to life with her camera eye and Iris's tenacious, Midwestern common sense--the perfect balance to all the existential weirdness. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Iris Vegan, a graduate student from the Midwest, finds herself in a web of bizarre circumstances and urban characters when she attends Columbia University. Iris initially accepts a role in the unbalanced lives of others hoping to find some semblance of her own personal identity. She soon discovers, however, the high cost of living blindly outside one's own reality. Hustvedt's powerful metaphors and haunting descriptions combine to make this a striking first novel that deserves public attention. In fact, two chapters were selected for inclusion in Best American Short Stories, 1990 and 1991 . If you neglect this novel because its plot sounds familiar, you will miss some of the most heartfelt and profound writing today.
- David A. Berona, Westbrook Coll. Lib., Portland, Me.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
- David A. Berona, Westbrook Coll. Lib., Portland, Me.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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The Blindflod was a very beautifully descriptive and passionate account of what it is like to be a young woman, a poor grad student, a newcomer to New York, and a migrane sufferer. If these are themes that interest you the book will be a pleasure to read. I read it straight through in one day, I was so entranced. Hustvedt has a knack for making the mundane appear incredibly bizarre, and the oddities of life appear normal in some way. The only thing I found a little disorienting is the order of the different chapters. Why are the readers left struggling with chronolgy? It is like a novel that begins in the middle of the story, or perhaps more like short stories woven together in the hope to form the full breadth of the novel form. One of the most memorable aspects of the novel is the exploration of an important, and all-too-overlooked, psychological theme of the secret human love of committing small evil acts.
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I had drifted away from American writing for a while and this book re-acquainted me with the brilliance of modern American writers. Intriguing and insightful, it made a lasting impression on me and I have recommended it to many. Although the heroine is hard to identify with, I think everybody who has ever been a poor student, struggling with self-awareness and coming-of-age angst will find one of their chords being struck by this narrative.
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ingeniously constructed novel following the path of impoverished graduate student iris, a highly intriguing character who runs into men who tend to take out their cruel fantasies on her
my second novel by siri hustvedt - am thorougly allured
my second novel by siri hustvedt - am thorougly allured
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wonderful, like nothing i've ever read before
i thought it was very psychalogical. it was strange, like nothing i've ever read before. although, i also thought it was wonderful!!
Am 19. September 2000 veröffentlicht
Unique and complicated, yet brilliantly written.
The Blindfold is really an interesting book. It is interesting that the reader is often unaware of the intentions and situations of Iris Vegan, the main character, who throughout... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
Funny and Strange
The third chapter of this book is one of the best short stories I have ever read. (It is in the 1991 Best American Short Stories - titled "Houdini"). Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. Juni 1999 von Webb Haymaker
Serious Emotional Intelligence
Hustvedt writes with a rare and beautiful emotional intelligence, and a searching mastery. She has an acute sense-memory. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Februar 1999 von Jason A. Newman
An impressive essay on cruelty.
That the book is dedicated to Paul Auster, you will find in the first chapter. The tone is similary to that of Auster's New York Trilogy. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. August 1998 von Marco Kuehnel (kuehnel@btm8x5.mat.uni-bayreuth.de)
Wonderful. Especially if you're an early Paul Auster fan.
WHile Ms. Hustveldt clearly has a command of her own territory, you will be reminded on early Paul Auster. It's odd and disturbingly beautiful.
Am 11. August 1998 veröffentlicht
overrated mumbo-jumbo
Having been touted by seemingly every magazine possible, I decided to try my luck with this novel. While the prose was definitively poetic, the plot was disconnected and often... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 3. Juli 1998 veröffentlicht
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