The Blindfold
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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.
Siri Hustvedt's The Blindfold is "...a work of dizzying intensity. . .eloquent and vivid." - Don DeLillo.
Siri Hustvedt's The Blindfold is "...a work of dizzying intensity. . .eloquent and vivid." - Don DeLillo.
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Softcover
Pages
224
Price
3.96 €
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4.5
Iris studiert Literatur in New York. Sie ist hübsch und intelligent aber auch unsicher und leicht beeinflussbar. Immer wieder lernt sie Männer kennen, die sie manipulieren. Sicherheit findet sie in nächtlichen Eskapaden, die sie in einem geliehenen Herrenanzug macht. Doch diese Ausbrüche werden mehr und mehr zur Sucht. Wieder einmal erzählt Hustvedt ungeheuer dicht. Die bedrohlischen Situationen sind für den Leser spürbar, die Verzweiflung der Hauptfigur mehr als nachvollziehbar. Sehr gut!
5
Such a great book! You know this feeling that something is off about the man around you, how they behave and treat you? But you can’t really name why and what it is because there isn’t a specific thing they did you can blame it on. Hustvedt caught perfectly the feeling of being a women interacting with men. And I’m so grateful to her for writing this book.
Description
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.
Siri Hustvedt's The Blindfold is "...a work of dizzying intensity. . .eloquent and vivid." - Don DeLillo.
Siri Hustvedt's The Blindfold is "...a work of dizzying intensity. . .eloquent and vivid." - Don DeLillo.
Book Information
Main Genre
N/A
Sub Genre
N/A
Format
Softcover
Pages
224
Price
3.96 €
Posts
4.5
Iris studiert Literatur in New York. Sie ist hübsch und intelligent aber auch unsicher und leicht beeinflussbar. Immer wieder lernt sie Männer kennen, die sie manipulieren. Sicherheit findet sie in nächtlichen Eskapaden, die sie in einem geliehenen Herrenanzug macht. Doch diese Ausbrüche werden mehr und mehr zur Sucht. Wieder einmal erzählt Hustvedt ungeheuer dicht. Die bedrohlischen Situationen sind für den Leser spürbar, die Verzweiflung der Hauptfigur mehr als nachvollziehbar. Sehr gut!
5
Such a great book! You know this feeling that something is off about the man around you, how they behave and treat you? But you can’t really name why and what it is because there isn’t a specific thing they did you can blame it on. Hustvedt caught perfectly the feeling of being a women interacting with men. And I’m so grateful to her for writing this book.