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| Original Title: | Intimacy |
| ISBN: | 349923193X (ISBN13: 9783499231933) |
| Edition Language: | German |
Hanif Kureishi
Hardcover | Pages: 252 pages Rating: 3.56 | 3754 Users | 350 Reviews
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| Title | : | Intimacy |
| Author | : | Hanif Kureishi |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 252 pages |
| Published | : | 2001 by Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag (first published 1998) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary |
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Hanif Kureishi's fourth novel made many reviewers uneasy on its first appearance in the U.K., because it cuts so painfully near to the bone. If a novelist's first duty is to tell the truth, then the author has done his duty with unflinching courage. Intimacy gives us the thoughts and memories of a middle-aged writer on the night before he walks out on his wife and two young sons for of a younger woman. A very modern man, without political convictions or religious beliefs, he vaguely hopes to find fulfillment in sexual love. No one is spared Kureishi's cold, penetrating gaze or lacerating pen. "She thinks she's feminist, but she's just bad-tempered," the unnamed narrator says of his abandoned wife. A male friend advises him, "Marriage is a battle, a terrible journey, a season in hell, and a reason for living."At the heart of Intimacy is this terrible paradox: "You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them." Male readers will wince with recognition at the narrator's hatred of entrapment and domesticity, and his implacable urge towards freedom, escape, even loneliness. Female readers may find it a truly horrific revelation. Kureishi is only telling it like it is, in staccato sentences of pinpoint accuracy. By far the author's best yet: a brilliant, devastating work. --Christopher Hart, Amazon.co.uk
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Ratings: 3.56 From 3754 Users | 350 ReviewsAppraise Of Books Intimacy
Asif: All of us yearn for more. We are never satisfied. Wisdom is to know the value of we have.First book to me by the author. Relentless storytelling, straight to the bone, without prettifying, it leaves a male reader feeling comfortable and worried at the same time. Comfortable in recognizing masculinity and protectiveness roles of a father/male, and worried in thinking of everything that one father/male shouldnt ever become, and yes in this book it is becoming.Trust that female readers willArgh. I hated this story. Self-indulgent, self-pitying drivel about a man who is preparing to leave his hard working, patient, and frankly over-tolerant wife, the mother of his two children, because he wants to go out and have sex with younger, fitter, 'more interesting' women. Conversely, I enjoyed Kureishi's writing style, and there were a couple of sentences that stood out as really beautiful, though they were floating in a pile of shite so they were bound to stand out. Part of me wonders if
Self-indulgent, self-pitying navel gazing, but brutally honest and unsettling in its exploration of a life-changing decision and all the pedestrian humanness behind it. The assertion in the synopsis that men will cringe in recognition and women will be horrified is laughable. Men would love to think that the actions and emotions experienced by the protagonist belong to them alone, while we, the nagging domestic harridens, cling to our men and think only of our precious family unit. That
Such agreat writing style and very insightful...the story itself is very believable and describes the ending of a long relationship and the thoughts one has in the process.
I have a lot to say so please bare with me .This is a story of a middle-aged british screenwriter , Jay , who decides to leave his wife and two children & the whole book is actually a dialogue by Jay filled with flashbacks to his own past .I don't know how to feel about this book .It's daring ,brutal , hard to read , provocative , the characters , or the protagonist , Jay , is not likeable at all , instead you constantly feel like hitting him . But at the same time , it's compelling ,
If I was ever (God forbid) asked to teach a course on the ethics of fiction, this slim novel would surely be on the assigned reading list.Intimacy unfolds over the course of 24 hours as its protagonist, a middle-aged screenwriter named Jay, prepares to leave Susan, the mother of his two young sons. Not that he has told her he's going; he intends simply to pack his bag and slip out the door in the morning after she goes to work. This is a case of art imitating life if there ever was one. Like his
I did not find anything to like in the central character, Jay. He reminded me of all the annoying characters in Love In A Blue Time (so the protagonists of all the stories except My Son The Fanatic). He is selfish, self-pitying, entitled, self-indulgent and needy. I think we are supposed to admire his honesty, but even that is whiny. I've read too many characters like Jay in books written by men in the 90s (Martin Amis for example). At least Brett Easton Ellis took his to the logical, if also
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