- Gebundene Ausgabe: 275 Seiten
- Verlag: Henry Holt & Co; Auflage: First Edition (September 1996)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0805049207
- ISBN-13: 978-0805049206
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,3 x 14,7 x 3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (2 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 369.475 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Siri Hustvedt, whose debut novel The Blindfold was showered with critical acclaim, returns with The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, the coming of age story of a voluptuous and vacuous aspiring actress who lives in a small town in Minnesota. In addition to the Marilyn Monroe-esque title character, Hustvedt provides a bevy of quirky characters including Lily's former high school pal Martin Petersen, who is assembling a collection of corpse photographs, and Edward Shapiro, the college professor and painter whom Lily quickly beds. On top of that, Hustvedt layers on a nice little murder mystery, which Lily investigates and solves.
From Kirkus Reviews
Hustvedt's second outing abandons the cerebral regions of postmodernism (The Blindfold, 1992) and turns to the familiar melodramas of small-town gothic. Nineteen-year-old Lilly Dahl lives in Webster, Minnesota, rooms over the main-street cafe where she works as waitress, and has ambitions of becoming an actress--she's learning, in fact, the role of Hermia for a local production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. The dream-world of Shakespeare's play and the events here befalling the hapless Lilly are often dovetailed neatly enough by Hustvedt, but at the same time her heroine's credibility-stretching tale of perversion, mystery, and obsession groans with the familiar. The seeming start of things was the long-ago killing of a woman named Helen Bodler, whose farmer husband is said by some to have buried her alive. Waitress Lilly serves breakfast daily to Helen's now-grown sons, the demented and unwashed bachelor farmers Frank and Dick, and to another distant relative of the dead Helen's, the eccentric loner Martin Petersen, ex-childhood playmate of Lilly herself. When eerie things start happening, then, there is no dearth of suspects--excluding neither Mabel Wasley, Lilly's 78- year-old neighbor who types all night and has secrets aplenty up her sleeve, nor Ed Shapiro, the handsome artist and out-of-towner who knows all about opera, works on his mysterious canvases all night--and steals Lilly's susceptible heart. When new murders and spectral sightings (of Lilly herself, no less) are reported, our feisty heroine turns fearless gumshoe (``She froze and held her breath. . . . But Lily knew that she was going to lurch headlong into whatever was waiting for her''), managing finally not only to expose all but to play a cool hand when Ed Shapiro at last offers to waft her away to New York City. Mystery, murder, and provincial caricatures, all in a readable but curiously dusty mix from a writer whose aims seemed higher the first time around. (Author tour) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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I wouldn't have been at all surprised if "The Enchantment of Lily Dahl" was a first novel - it has that unaccomplished, don't-quite-know-where-I'm-going-with-this feel about it. But it's not a first novel, and as such, it doesn't have even that meagre excuse to offer for itself.
Hustvedt does write interestingly of the small town, Webster, and manages to create some original side characters, but the ultimate failing in this novel is Lily Dahl herself. A
novel's main character doesn't have to necessarily be likeable, but I think she should elicit some sort of response from the reader and, unfortunately, Lily Dahl left me completely cold. I could not involve myself with her in any way. She would have perhaps been excusable as a minor character, mentioned in passing, but as the central character she is simply too trite.
There are many good ideas and themes throughout the story, but unfortunately none of them is explored fully or well enough to satisfy.
Ultimately disappointing and disenchanting.
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This book reminded me very much of Jonathan Carroll's type of novels. Siri Hustvedt has created a very appealing, likable heroine in Lily Dahl, and the supporting cast is wonderful. Like Carroll, Ms. Hustvedt seems to have all kinds of ideas for this novel; she can't seem to choose which genre or storyline to use, so she hops around from one type of story to another.
Ordinarily this would annoy me, with the novel beginning as a love story (or an erotic novel, take your pick), then a coming-of-age novel, then a sort of fairy-tale, then a murder mystery, then... I don't know what. Some things are never answered or explained inm this novel, but somehow even the unexplained and out-of-place parts of the novel don't irritate the reader. Rather, they enrich the story, give it all kinds of elements. Hustvedt's dream sequences, for example, wouldn't seem to have anything to do with the novel, and yet they add to it; the story wouldn't be nearly as engrossing or lovely without them.
Ultimately, even though the novel misleads you several times, The Enchantment is still a wonderful book with all kinds of elememts in it that make it strange and engaging and beautiful. Lily Dahl is a wonderful character, and I found myself wanting to read about what happens to her after the end of the book, not an easy feat for a novel.
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Can't help but give it 5 stars.
31. Oktober 1999
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This book reminded me very much of Jonathan Carroll's type of novels. Siri Hustvedt has created a very appealing, likable heroine in Lily Dahl, and the supporting cast is wonderful. Like Carroll, Ms. Hustvedt seems to have all kinds of ideas for this novel; she can't seem to choose which genre or storyline to use, so she hops around from one type of story to another.
Ordinarily this would annoy me, with the novel beginning as a love story (or an erotic novel, take your pick), then a coming-of-age novel, then a sort of fairy-tale, then a murder mystery, then... I don't know what. Some things are never answered or explained inm this novel, but somehow even the unexplained and out-of-place parts of the novel don't irritate the reader. Rather, they enrich the story, give it all kinds of elements. Hustvedt's dream sequences, for example, wouldn't seem to have anything to do with the novel, and yet they add to it; the story wouldn't be nearly as engrossing or lovely without them.
Ultimately, even though the novel misleads you several times, The Enchantment is still a wonderful book with all kinds of elememts in it that make it strange and engaging and beautiful. Lily Dahl is a wonderful character, and I found myself wanting to read about what happens to her after the end of the book, not an easy feat for a novel.
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Check out "What I Loved" instead
11. Januar 2005
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Lucky for us, Siri Hustvedt went on to write greater things, and we can expect even more of her as she hones her craft. "The Enchantment of Lily Dahl," he second novel, will disappoint those readers who absolutlely loved her novel "What I Loved," an emotionally gripping, sophisticatedly plotted and lyrical novel about the intersections of love, art and life in 1980s and 1990s New York City. I found nothing really enchanting or enchanted about Hustvedt's protaganist in this one, a blond buxom waitress withering as in smalltown Minnesota but hoping for a career as an actress. The story might have been about a young woman discovering something within herself and her surroundings, but instead, the reader gets a murder mystery with a psycho, as well as a handful of caricatured and unbelievable characters who all seem to love Lily Dahl but never seem to get her. Don't judge Hustvedt by this one.
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Enchanting the Reader
22. Januar 2001
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Like `The Blindfold' a self consciously post-modern novel filled with empty signs and cultural observation. What I felt her central goal in this novel was to capture the human content of a typical American woman, star-eyed and given to thoughts of her image more than thoughts of her self. At first, it seems that the story might be sacrificed for these random but poignant observations, but by the end you are left with a fragmented image of a woman, cut up by the short-sightedness of society and the misogynistic nature of men. As with her prior novel, she always keeps a tight focus on her heroine, but has succeeded to a much better end a carefully plotted narrative. Like Atwood's `The Edible Woman', the image of what the heroine sees herself to be is eaten by the woman herself, or buried in this case, in order to be redefined by the woman herself. The novel is beautifully written and an engaging read.
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