shutter Island
Shutter Island is a 2003 novel by the American writer Dennis Lehane in the psychological thriller genre .
action
The plot is preceded by a prologue in the form of a diary note by Dr. Lester Sheehan, who looks back on events long past in 1993.
In 1954, the US Marshal Edward Daniels and his partner Chuck Aule investigated the mysterious disappearance of a patient from the special prison for mentally deranged criminals operated on Shutter Island . The patient, a multiple child murderer named Rachel Solando, had managed to escape from her locked cell without a trace.
Edward Daniels also has a private interest in the assignment: He suspects the murderer of his wife Dolores, Andrew Laeddis, on Shutter Island. From the first moment, the two marshals have the feeling that the prison administration has something to hide. The suspicion that forbidden experiments are being carried out on insane criminals is growing. After Daniels has learned from an encrypted message from the missing Rachel Solando that an unregistered inmate exists, his search for Laeddis becomes an obsession. During a hurricane that cuts the island off from the outside world, he and his partner penetrate the separated block C, which houses the most dangerous criminals. Here are the first indications of Laeddi's presence.
Events come to a head when his partner Chuck Aule disappears without a trace. Daniels escapes the guards at the last moment, but cannot leave the island. Eventually he penetrates the lighthouse where he suspects the scene of the medical experiments and his captured partner Chuck.
In the lighthouse, to his surprise, he is kindly met by the head doctor of the institution, Dr. Cawley, greeted. This tries to convince him that he, the Marshal Edward Daniels, and the criminal Andrew Laeddis are the same person. The insane Laeddis is a former US marshal. The name Edward Daniels is an anagram of Andrew Laeddis . Daniels is a pure fantasy, while Laeddis is real.
Then his partner Chuck Aule appears. He poses as Dr. Lester Sheehan, who works as a psychiatrist on Shutter Island. The two doctors explain to Laeddis and Daniels how the Shutter Island prison works. It is actually an experimental institute that tries to achieve a more humane treatment of hitherto incurable mentally ill patients with novel therapeutic approaches. In the case of Laeddis, his delusions were dealt with for four days, that is, he was treated like a real marshal in order to bring him back to reality and to make his deed - namely the killing of his wife - clear to him. Edward Daniels is another personality Laeddis' invented by him because he could not deal with the fact that he had killed his wife Dolores after they drowned their three children.
The end of the book leaves open whether the person of Daniel (and thus the story of the marshal who has been looking for Rachel Solando with his partner for four days) is real or the doctor's version, i.e. that of the insane Laeddis, who has the made up another story because of his illness, which is true. However, there is a reference to the reality of Laeddis and the corresponding version: At the end of the plot, after Daniels had seen the day before in the lighthouse that he had invented the story of the two marshals, Daniels or Laeddis is sitting with his partner or alleged psychiatrist on a staircase. When they talk, he again addresses the psychiatrist as his partner. He is back in the firm belief in the version with the two Marshals and Rachel Solando. After a moment's thought, Dr. Sheehan Dr. Cawley with a quick glance and shaking his head, the failure of the non-surgical healing attempts at Laeddis. The nurses approach them with the surgical instruments.
Reviews and review
“Shutter Island is just fun. One cliché chases the other, but you do not find yourself in a lame infusion, you notice that the author is putting on something like a big quotes cinema with a slight irony. Each scene, representation and character is a modest nod to Hollywood's black series, the hardboiled detectives and all those scary stories in which a “doctor” appears in the title. You feel good to see this potpourri of ideas linked in such a fresh way. "
“Even if you have an inkling of what is happening on Shutter Island, the skilfully stoked tension increases steadily. As I said, Lehane masters his craft. It is therefore not to be blamed for the fact that the resolution of the plot cannot withstand the path there. If one makes the mistake of thinking about the evil plan that is finally revealed, one immediately thinks of the huge logical gaps and its dependence on improbable coincidences that expose it as a pure construction of an entertainment novel. "
“Here you get a story that makes you think. The gloomy atmosphere, the well-crafted characters, physical and psychological violence draw you into the action and leave you as disturbed as Teddy Daniels is during his investigation. "
Audio book
Shutter Island was published in 2009 as an audio book by Lauscherlounge in an abridged version, read by Oliver Rohrbeck .
“Almost eight hours of properly produced audio book entertainment, this is what the listening lounge with speaker Oliver Rohrbeck offers in this implementation of Shutter Island . Fortunately, one orientated oneself on the book and not on the film, so that the numerous explanations that one receives in the course of the plot are sufficient to be surprised in the end by the author with an unexpected twist. A criminal case that turns into a thriller and doesn't want to let go of the listener anytime soon, also thanks to the sympathy that Rohrbeck's voice arouses for the main protagonist Teddy Daniels. "
filming
The film was made into a film by director Martin Scorsese with Leonardo DiCaprio as Marshal and Mark Ruffalo as his partner. Production began in 2008 and the original English version was shown in the USA and Canada on October 2, 2009. On February 25, 2010 the film was presented in cinemas across Germany. The head of the institution, Dr. Cawley is played by Ben Kingsley . Max von Sydow provides a Dr. Naehring, whom the marshal believes he recognizes because he saw him during the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp . The film works with flashbacks that u. a. show what Teddy Daniels experienced as a US soldier in Germany at the end of the war.
expenditure
- Dennis Lehane: Shutter Island. Novel . Bantam Books, London 2003, ISBN 0-593-04797-4 .
- Dennis Lehane: Shutter Island. Novel . Ullstein, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-550-08457-9 .
- New translation: Shutter Island. Diogenes, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-257-24335-2 (from the American by Steffen Jacobs).
- Dennis Lehane: Shutter Island. Audio book . Edition Lauscherlounge, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-7857-4225-9 (6 CDs, read by Oliver Rohrbeck ).
- Christian de Metter: Shutter Island . Verlag Schreiber & Leser, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-941239-43-2 ( graphic novel based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review on buecherplausch.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Review on krimi-couch.de
- ↑ Review on fantasyguide.de
- ↑ “Shutter Island” in the Lauscherlounge's publishing program ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Content and review on hoertipps.de
Web links
- Review on Phantasienreisen.de
- Review on Booksection.de
- Review of the audio book on Leser-Welt.de
- Review of the audio book on Hoerzentrale.de