Hate: A Romance: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (958 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0865479119 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 273 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-31 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In a controversial first novel that took the French literary world by storm and won the Prix de Flore, Tristan Garcia uses sex, friendships, and love affairs to show what happens to people when political idealsMarxism, gay rights, sexual liberation, nationalismcome to an end. As Elizabeth Levallois, a cultural journalist, looks back on this decade and on the ravages of the AIDS epidemic in Paris, a drama unfoldsone in which love turns to hate and fidelity turns to betrayal, in both affairs of the heart and politics. With great verve and ingenuity, Garcia lays claim to an era that promised freedom as never before, and he paints an indelible, sharp, but sympathetic portrait of intellectuals lost in the age of MTV.
Sex, lies, and philosophy The cover, Warhol's Querelle, fits as the book is about quarrels, lovers' quarrels, lovers of fame, truth, each other and themselves. American readers older than the author will remember our version of the culture wars and sides-taking and changing deftly sketched. The French difference is an added attraction for us. But for all that, the book's a page-turner of love, betrayal, revenge and retribution, all a la mode relative, and humanly charming.. Love, Sex, Intellect and Hate. When one talks about the gay community, all they can think of is either sex or stereotyped behaviour patterns. They cannot look beyond it. There is something about the stereotypes and more than anything else, it is the glorification of them through media. Every so-called action and behaviour is recorded and then used by popular media to poke fun at the gay community. There are also times when gay men and women subscribe to these stereotypes and give them the strength, but beyond that it is about humans at the e. Just the old, old tale of love turned bad The first four chapters of this book introduce us to the main protagonists, who are Willie, Doumé, Leibo and LizThe story is told by Liz - Elizabeth Levallois - a thirty three year old cultural journalist, who is a friend of Willie, Doume's colleague and Leibo's mistress. It is through her that we learn how these three characters paths cross.We are first introduced to William Miller (Willie), born in Amiens, at nineteen he moved to Paris where, at the start of the book, he is living on the streets & in t
It took an upstart philosopher to make me understand what was going on when I was twenty years old, when the Left became the Right.” Frédéric Beigbeder, author of Windows on the World and founder of the Prix de Flore. “Among the first novels we read this season, the most mind-blowing is by twenty-seven-year-old Tristan Garcia: Hate: A Romance, a morality tale that grapples with the political and intellectual battles of the last two decades of French life and how those are caught up in the sex lives of the protagonists. A novel we're still reeling from, and which we've chosen to put at the very top of our honor roll.” Les Inrockuptibles“One of the revelations of the literary season An intimate, romantic, political, and cultural fresco of the 1980s, a portrait startling in its accuracy.” Christine Rousseau, Le Monde“
He is the author of a book of philosophy, The Image, published in 2007. Tristan Garcia was born in 1981 in Toulouse and attended the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he specialized in philosophy. Hate: A Romance is his first novel.