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I am looking for links to critical essays on THE BLINDFOLD. Can anyone direct me to good websites or journals???

Danr1977@hotmail.com

>>By Dan (Saturday, 25 Jan 2003 19:16)

Any joy?

>>By Dan (Saturday, 25 Jan 2003 19:16)

I am also looking for such links, but am afraid i've found none apart from a review of 'The Blindfold' in the New York Times (28 April 1992) by Michiko Kakutani. Other than that, all I can find out from anyone is that there is very little secondary literature on Hustvedt at all. Good luck! (and if you do find anything, let me know!)

>>By penelope (Saturday, 25 Jan 2003 19:16)

i just finished the blindfold ten minutes ago. i now read up on it. i will never read another review of a novel again. it completely altered my perception of the novel. i despised that. i think it may be due to the realisation that i didn't notice the flaws of the novel as i was reading it. i thoroughly enjoyed it. now i feel stupid because i have been forced to become aware of my lack of knowledge and probable false analysis of many of my favourite books. i don't know why i wrote this in here. it has nothing to do with hustvedt or her works. i just feel stupid and thought i would tell someone. i may not have presented my thoughts in such a way as providing an understanding for anyone but myself. it doesn't matter though. thats all i needed.

>>By cp (Sunday, 27 Apr 2003 09:26)

I am reading and enjoyinfg the book
Previous: what do u care if some self satisfied critic does not like it? it is intelligent and thoughtful, sensitive and readable. It is more than anything else thought provoking

>>By sk (Monday, 23 Jun 2003 14:31)

Also , Dan
please note there 's a lot of work on Hustvedt in French

>>By sk (Monday, 23 Jun 2003 14:33)

I am about to finish The Blindfold and have found it quite gripping, with thousands of good ideas, brilliant passages and feelings but at some points a little tricky (i.e., Michael's sudden behaviour, the symmetries with the short story they translate). Actually I thought the author decided to unite three short stories which were previously independent and that precisely it was the link between them that was flawed.

I read "What I loved" and found it deeply moving in every sense. Siri is a genious and if she keeps her track her books will be subject of study by our kids at school.

Anyone recommends "The enchantment of Lily Dahl"?

>>By All about Eve (Tuesday, 9 Nov 2004 16:59)

I've just finished The Blindfold. Hustvedt is incredibly sharp, and her depictions of femininity and the vulnerability it entails are simply great. I've read somewhere a review which summarized the plot as the description of the life of a deeply disturbed young woman, and yet for me Iris Vegan seemed incredibly sane against the background of the people surroundind her. Is it not that the world around her is mad, and her huge sensitivity responds to it in those odd psychsomatic ways? Is she not all the way trying to preserve herself despite the myriad of circumstances which she cannot control and from which she can never entirely substract herself?

>>By obsidiana (Monday, 12 Mar 2007 13:56)

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