@article{10272/27396,
year = {2025},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10272/27396},
abstract = {Drawing on care ethics and vulnerability theory, this study addresses the prominent role of intimacy in Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo (2024), set in contemporary Ireland. Written in a language that focuses on the protagonists’ interiority, bodily sensations, and emotional world, the novel vividly portrays a “radical” sense of intimacy which helps characters reassess their phobias and insecurities within their closest relationships. As will be argued, intimacy in Rooney’s Intermezzo is not just a matter of human connection, but of a personal transformation that allows protagonists to move away from the neoliberal and patriarchal values, norms, and stereotypes of today’s world.},
organization = {The research for this article was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, the European Regional Development Fund and the Spanish Research Agency through the research projects “INTRUTHS 2: Articulations of Individual and Communal Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Irish Writing,” PID2020-114776GB-I00 MCIN/AEI, and “Posthuman Intersections in Irish and Galician Literatures,” PID2022-136251NB-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by “ERDF: A Way of Making Europe”.},
publisher = {Universidad de Valladolid},
title = {Radical Intimacy in Sally Rooney's Intermezzo},
doi = {10.24197/nfh5j274},
author = {Carregal Romero, José},
}