And each of her novels explore masochism and sadism of these lives that are full of feelings. "A direct writing, a cruel tone and devastating humor is her trademark. ![]() The look of the other is still explored in Mercure (1998) or, more accurately, the theme of "reflection": the image and that of thought. Les catilinaires (1995) shows that the characters panic before the unexpected while Peplum (1996), a novel to the unbridled imagination, comes in the form of a dialogue between a mad scientist of the future, a leading specialist in ancient Rome, the narrator whose crazy assumption has led him to anticipate a reality that scientistsof the future are responsible for the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD!īack to black humour with Attentat (1997) where, with a candor and ferocious childlike cruelty, Amélie Nothomb depicts a kind of Elephant Man and leads him to the crime of passion. In 1994, she made the leap and wrote her first play: Les combustibles Excelling in the writing of dialogues, her first two novels Hygiène de l'assassin and Sabotage amoureux (1993) will be skillfully adapted to the theater. Already, the writer uses, what will become her personal touch, common to all her work: black humor, fantasy, severity and theatricality. Gifted writer, Amelie Nothomb acquires success at the age of 25 with Hygiène de l'assassin (1992), a perverse cruel novel which features a face to face with no mercy, a Nobel Prize of literature misanthropic and misogynistic, and three journalists who came to interview her on hearing the news of her coming death. It is writing, she said, which allowed her to survive. She now lives between Brussels and Paris. After studying ancient philology in Belgium, she returned to Japan where she worked as an interpreter. She arrived in Europe "in pain" at the age of 17. Born in Kobe, Japan, in 1967, Amelie Nothomb spent her childhood and teenage years in the Far East.
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