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Hanif Kureishi's latest novel made many reviewers uneasy on its first appearance, because it cuts so painfully near to the bone. If a novelist's first duty is to tell the truth, then Kureishi 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, in favour of a younger woman. A very modern man, without political convictions or religious beliefs, he vaguely hopes to find fulfilment 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," he 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 the novel 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
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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 -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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The end of a love that has never been a real love. An escape from something that is more a state of mind than a life and therefore something impossible to escape from. How does a love born in uncertain infatuation, developed as a stable ground for sexual sidetrips end? As an unhappy marriage! Genuine feelings do not exist there. This can be positive, because hate is never present at any time. But Kureishis protagonist has never been able to turn a low burning infatuation into love. It takes another woman (sexually perfect and attractive, but otherwise too young and surprisingly faceless) to make him realize that he can't go on. Kureishi is a master in describing feelings and torn-up minds. While others concentrate on telling a story, briefly introducing their characters between the lines(if at all), Kureishi's stories develop themselves around the endless insight into the helpless thinking of his characters. The reader may realize after he finished half of the book that the story is not told, that it simply happens. A quality almost lost in today's writing. Kureishis characters try to think about what to do in their lives, try to work out a masterplan for what has to come but never succeed. The same happens here, painfully detailed and real! The whole book circles around one single thought: Am I allowed to do what I have to do? Of course Kureishi uses the same characters in the same surroundings over and over again: upper middle class in London, creative jobs (advertising, writers...), drug experiences, in their late thirties or early forties. Settling themselves in a petty bourgeoisie world without wanting to, torn up apart on their rollercoaster ride into a world they hoped to avoid but suddenly join. And that's the real quality of Kureishi: These are no books, these are mirrors for a whole generation! A generation of people who try to be different from their parents half of their lives when they are suddenly caught at realizing that they are exactly the same. The only difference is the occasional joint or line of cocaine. Another lost generation born in the late fifties to mid-sixties too busy in their wild and pretended creative life to think about the time after the party. Many of his characters do not succeed and spend the rest of their lives in a permanent hangover. He told this story many times but in Intimacy he presents a perfect summary. A good book to start a trip into the Kureishi universe, a good one to read when you know many of his books and a painful mirror for many of us...
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Kureishi minimalistic descripiton of protagonists Jay last night before leaving his familly is a sad and sometimes dull, but really honest and accurate. Kureishi is not just being very sincere but also dealing with side of somehow tabu question about leaving family and two children in order being with another person. Story of his courage taking a decision which will not deterine just his and his spouses life, but as well will much determine his children is a sublime emotional voyage on this last night. Kureishi is sending us a message that taking one side is not just leaving the other behind. As story is sometimes really painfull to stick to it, so is the described siutation. This book is recommendet to those people who are stock in their lives with partners, not admiting there can be life 'afterwards', that they would live that kind o a life, beacuse it's hard to admit that they made a wrong decission in past life. Having children is making it worse, and leaving someone with this 'burden' is almost impossible. But, as Kureishi pointed it out, leaving in a milieu of constant fighting is no good for anyone, specially not for chidlren.
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Hanif Kureishi is one of the best playwrites/novelists writing in English today, and "Itimacy" is one of his finest works. It is the kind of novel that you cannot put down, not because the plot is so exciting, but because he offers such insight. Warning: this book is--for some unknown reason--deeply upsetting. You seem to travel so deep into the mind of the narrator, who seems a lot like Kureishi himself, that escape is futile. This book will control your emotions for days after you've finished it.
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Ein sehr übersichtliches, gut aufgebautes Werk! Sehr hilfreich zum Verständnis des Ursprungs und der Entwicklung der Englischen Sprache!!
Am 12. März 2002 veröffentlicht
Provocant but astonishingly intense
I have read the book "Midnight All Day" before I started to read this one. So my expectations were quite high. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. Mai 2001 veröffentlicht
"Intimacy'leaves its marks on the reader.For life,
For those who have read all of H.Kureishi's work "Intimacy" has almost nothing to do with his previous books.There are 5 characters and no more than 200 pages. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. April 2000 von Samuel
Too much intimacy?
Kureishi calls this "Intimacy, A Novel" but it is really hard to believe that you aren't reading his most personal thoughts. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. März 2000 von "stuart8823"
The slow erosion of love
Not exactly the happiest book I've ever read but certainly one of the best examples of dealing with separation. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. Januar 2000 von tamazin
The slow erosion of love
Not exactly the happiest book I've ever read but certainly one of the best examples of dealing with separation. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. Januar 2000 von tamazin
Must read for those who ponder the effects of love
Intimacy is the first book I have read three times and I still find new and interesting thoughts. For a newly-married, young female reading it for the first time, it was... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 22. Januar 2000 von Zarna
Really fascinating and compelling
I almost felt like this book was a memoir rather than a novel, so fully did the author draw me into the world of the protagonist. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Januar 2000 von Melanchthon
An Unromantic Look At Romantic Love
Kureishi is undoubtedly a wonderful storyteller. To get a better idea of his work and the vast scope it covers, I'd suggest reading "Buddha of Suburbia" first, because of... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. November 1999 von Divia Thani
Intimacy is a briefk, honest tale of breaking up.
This is the end
Anyone who has ever ended a relationship, or even considered it, will relate to Hanif Kureishi's "Intimacy." But reading it may be painful. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 2. November 1999 veröffentlicht
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