High fidelity (novel)

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High Fidelity is a novel by Nick Hornby , who first appeared 1995th

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Robert Fleming, 35, lives in London 's Crouch End and owns a record shop. He and his two collaborators, Barry and Dick, often discuss their respective top five records or their top five worst songs of all time.

Rob is abandoned by his friend Laura, who is a lawyer, for cheating on her while she was pregnant. He will never be able to repay a larger amount of money that she has lent him; in addition, both found that their relationship was getting more and more boring.

As a first-person narrator, Rob reports on his top five ex-girlfriends: Alison Ashworth, Penny Hardwick, Jackie Allen, Charlie Nicholson and Sarah Kendrew. He meets up with them one after the other and they talk about their relationships and their future lives, as Rob wants to find out exactly where their relationships broke up.

He meets the singer Marie LaSalle, but still has to think about Laura a lot. Meanwhile, she is with Ian Ray, who has been living above Rob and Laura's apartment for some time. However, Rob learns from Laura's best friend Liz that Laura is not happy in their new relationship.

At the funeral of Laura's father Ken, the two get closer again. Laura notices that her life with Rob was better, but he realizes that he has to change his behavior in order to bring Laura back. Laura organizes a club appearance for Rob, where he acts as a DJ as in the past . Barry and his band Backbeat also perform in the sold-out club . Laura and Rob become a couple again, although Laura rejects his marriage proposal.

Reviews

Michael Althen regarded the novel in his review in the Süddeutsche Zeitung in March 1996 as a "visual book on the essence and delusion of men" that is worth reading. Similar to Fever Pitch , Hornby in his book get to the bottom of male quirks and throw "a rather sharp and incredibly funny look at the peculiarities of his peers"; the novel is "through and through egocentric" and treats "prejudices and vanities, animosities and sensitivities, unspoken and admitted". The novel removes any illusion from female readers that their men could one day grow up.

In contrast, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung called High Fidelity in its review in August 1996 as a book that was “well written in terms of pop music”, but criticized the fact that the novel offered the reader little besides “the broad range of identification [...] “And that“ the yield of this talkative book is meager ”.

filming

In 2000 the novel was made into a film with John Cusack in the lead role (see High Fidelity (film) ).

expenditure

  • High Fidelity , German by Clara Drechsler and Harald Hellmann, Kiepenheuer & Witsch: Cologne (1996) ISBN 3-462-02524-4 .
  • High Fidelity , German by Clara Drechsler and Harald Hellmann, Droemer Knaur: Munich (1999) ISBN 3-426-61270-4 .
  • High Fidelity , engl. Original edition, Indigo (1996) ISBN 978-0575400184 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mysteries of Eternal Puberty . On: michaelalthen.de , originally published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on March 28, 1996. Retrieved on February 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ Review: Fiction - When She Didn't Want Me . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 5, 1996. Retrieved September 29, 2013.