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Self-indulgent. Laborious. And exasperating!... but, also, beautifully written.

There is a moment in the book when the character thinks, feels, he’s being pitiful. And, the truth is: he is. But he’s also frustrating, and confusing, aggravating, and not that enjoyable to read about.

Aciman is a true master of simile and description, of memory and emotion, but even his power with words can’t keep this story together. It drags. It lags. It falters. He spends too much time on the inane, and neglects the true heart of the book: the character’s relationship with his father.

Aciman is a literary role model, and this book proves our idols can’t always be perfect. But it is this misstep that makes me admire him even more.


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Eight White Nights A Novel André Aciman Books Reviews

Boy meets girl on p.1, and after p.360 you close the book and think "wtf happened here?"

The answer is, nothing very much. They try, sometimes quite hard, to launch a relationship but they're thwarted time and again by their own intellectual analysis of the possibilities, like chess players mentally paralyzed because every possible move leads to some knowable disaster six moves ahead.

So instead, they see all of Eric Rohmer's films -- during which they eat and drink so much that you imagine them bloated by the end -- and take one car trip together. They demonstrate their polyglot talents to each other by inventing their own language, which is mainly used to maintain smugness and baffle their other friends. It certainly does not draw them closer together. Most of the action takes place on the outskirts of the campus of Columbia University at Christmas time, but the district is not portrayed in any kind of way to make you wish you knew the place better. There are snowy streets. There is a park. There is a patrolman. There are buses. An occasional taxi.

The couple never get into bed, although I suppose an optimistic reader is allowed to hope that this blessed event is imminent as the book ends. A more realistic reader will assume that they'll simply move on from Rohmer to Resnais or Rivette and keep munching. He gets a hard-on somewhere around p.200 and she possibly feels it against her, or possibly not. Nothing is done with it.

Pity.
If one wonders how anyone could write so interestingly about an obsession, read this book. It is totally engrossing and beautifully written.
Very hard to read. The authors non fiction is fine, influenced by Proust. The novels are strained, unrefined and in this case disengaged. The author is disassociated from his subject.
An impromptu, composed not by the outer events that happen t o the characters, but by what happens i n their wavering minds and hearts. Subtlety reminiscent of Chekov, Proust, Woolf.
Christine de Laihacar
I love the descriptive style Andre Aciman uses. The beginning of the book felt longer than the rest, but he created such an important foundation for the protagonist to move up. Leaves you thinking about the characters and their relationship for days to come.
What a book! Such joy, such stress, such pain! So much life in just a week!

I've never read such poetic prose in my life. Each sentence is a treasure.

I love the narrator. I love how he voices thoughts I didn't even know I had. I love that he is insecure and confident, shy and bold, light-hearted and deep, confused and certain. He's me. He's all of us.

I want to re-read this book again and again, highlighting every sentence that moves me, but I'm afraid I'll have to highlight the whole thing.

Highly recommend.
A superbly written, psychologically sophisticated book that reports one man's thought progression as he encounters and pursues a captivating woman. Aciman unfolds the ebb and flow of the narrator's engagement with this woman with incredible skill. It's a cliffhanger romantic novel without being sentimental or sensational because the narrator speaks with the depth of insight and honesty that is extraordinary in this age of opportunistic hook-ups and utilitarian attachments. It will broaden the way people think about themselves when pursuing that special person. His hero's internal conversations remind me of the best non-fiction writing about human attachment, belonging, internal security and trust, but without sounding like behavioral science writing. For anyone who's traveled the bumpy road from unsettling attraction to being part of a satisfying connection, this writing will reassure us that the work of becoming involved with another can be worth the effort.
Self-indulgent. Laborious. And exasperating!... but, also, beautifully written.

There is a moment in the book when the character thinks, feels, he’s being pitiful. And, the truth is he is. But he’s also frustrating, and confusing, aggravating, and not that enjoyable to read about.

Aciman is a true master of simile and description, of memory and emotion, but even his power with words can’t keep this story together. It drags. It lags. It falters. He spends too much time on the inane, and neglects the true heart of the book the character’s relationship with his father.

Aciman is a literary role model, and this book proves our idols can’t always be perfect. But it is this misstep that makes me admire him even more.