ISBN  9781501171727

The Blindfold


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Autor  Siri Hustvedt
Condicion  Nuevo

From the author of The Blazing World a work of dizzying intensity eloquent and vivid (Don DeLillo) about a young Midwestern woman who finds herself entangled in intense circumstances physical cerebral and existential when she moves to New York City. 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 strong 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..