Intermezzo

A Novel

Hardcover, 432 pages

english language

Published Sept. 24, 2024 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

ISBN:
978-0-374-60263-5
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Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one …

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Toto měla být moje první Sally Rooney. Skončila jsem v polovině třetí kapitoly, tj. asi na straně 65, a prostě dál už jsem nemohla. Pocit utrpení jsem totiž měla hned od začátku.

Jsou tam hrooozně dlouhé odstavce. Bez nějaké struktury, jsou to takové proudy myšlenek asi jako při automatickém psaní. Takže čtení je velmi náročné. Naopak na nějaké "mikroúrovni" je jazyk hrozně jednoduchý, strohý, což nutně nevadí, ale v češtině pak jde obtížně poznat, kdo co zrovna dělá a říká, jak je to v přítomném čase (např. "Ivan popojde k lednici, o niž se opírá, a políbí ji na ústa." – Kdo se o tu lednici opírá? Ivan? Jak může popojít k lednici, o kterou je opřený? Takže se o lednici opírá ona?). Takové věci jsou tam často a je to dost matoucí. Navíc ve větách často chybí sloveso, což chápu, že je jakože umělecký záměr, ale všeho moc škodí… …

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Sally Rooney gets hate, but I'm convinced that people are made that she's so good at such a young age. She's great at relationships. I want to write a paper about her use of the word "Yes" in this book - it comes up during so many internal monologues, across characters. Characters stumble into an understanding of something and say "Yes." I'm not sure if it's a tick across her novels - I've never noticed it before.

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