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Hate: A Romance: A Novel Paperback – October 26, 2010

by Tristan Garcia (Author), Marion Duvert (Translator), Lorin Stein (Translator)
2.9 2.9 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
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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 ideals―Marxism, gay rights, sexual liberation, nationalism―come 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 unfolds―one 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.

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    273 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  4. Publication date
    October 26, 2010
  5. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.64 x 8.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0865479119
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0865479111
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“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

“The real eye-opener of the season . . . A novel that made me reassess a decade that I'd lived through with my eyes closed. 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

About the Author

Tristan Garcia was born in 1981 in Toulouse and attended the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he specialized in philosophy. He is the author of a book of philosophy, The Image, published in 2007. Hate: A Romance is his first novel.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition (October 26, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 273 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0865479119
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0865479111
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.64 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    2.9 2.9 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

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2.9 out of 5 stars
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Alfred C. Mondello
2.0 out of 5 stars HATE
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2012
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Wierd and out there! I couldn't finish it but I couldn't forget it so I went back and read it again.
It takes all kinds.
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MGallaway
5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting exploration of the impact of AIDS on gay culture
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2011
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I would recommend this book to anyone interested in how HIV/AIDS can both bring a 'community' together and destroy it at the same time. I found the ending a bit too pat, but the riveting ambiguity of the middle of the book more than made up for it. Great stuff.
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Vivek Tejuja
5.0 out of 5 stars Love, Sex, Intellect and Hate.
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2013
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 end of the day. Falling in love, wanting it all, desiring one another and at the same time oscillating between intense passion and intense hate.

"Hate: A Romance" by Tristan Garcia is about just that - deep rooted emotions in an ever-changing world. The first four chapters of the book introduce the four protagonists - Willie, Doumé, Leibo and Liz. The story is narrated by Liz and the relationships are seen through her eyes. The book then carries on with how these characters met and their relationships. It is all about their choices, their involvement and personal ideologies and their confirmation or not, and how the society at large transforms them.

The book borderlines on sexual preferences and choices. Tristan makes his characters take chances which is remarkably put in his writing. There is no regret and maybe because it is the 80s. It is a book about people making choices and sometimes not. It is about the rise of AIDS and how everything was attributed to gay men. The book beautifully infuses politics with love and issues that need to be talked about and no one does. Relationships are at the core of the book and Garcia uses short chapters to bring out the truths and lies of each intertwined relationship. The four characters are given their own voices (though there is only one narrator) and through each voice, the reader experiences a different view to politics, love, sex, AIDS and but of course hate and how relationships are constantly being forged or ending ruthlessly between these characters.

The writing is sharp and vivid. The core of the novel is intellectual and the contrasting viewpoints are intelligent and at the same reflect the state of the society, then and now. The story takes place in a culture lost to television and at the same time trying very hard to not lose out on the intellectualism and rights and above all trying to sustain love in between hate and opinions.
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J. D. Muller
4.0 out of 5 stars Sex, lies, and philosophy
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2011
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.
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