In a wistful, clever and unusual novel, Amelie Nothomb casts herself as hunger: hunger for experience, hunger for life, hunger for sweetness and, in what is the book''s nucleus, hunger for hunger (the period during which she was afflicted by acute anorexia). Recounting the formative journeys of her youth, from Tokyo to Peking to Paris to New York, "The Life of Hunger" is a brilliant and moving examination of the self, and perhaps Amelie''s most mature and moving work to date.
Tired of traditional reality shows, the television audience wants blood, literally. One day, while out taking a walk in the Jardin des Plantes, Pannonique is piled into a cattle-truck. Suddenly, it seems, anyone can be picked up and hauled off to the studio without a moment's notice. Set in an unspecified time, "Sulphuric Acid" tells the story of this reality TV death camp which has become the nation's obsession - an amoral spectacle played out through the media - as we follow the shifting fortunes of Pannonique and her nemesis, the guard Zdena. A huge bestseller in her adopted France, it once again shows the unique voice and imagination of Amelie Nothomb
Stupeur et tremblements pourrait donner l'impression qu'au Japon, à l'âge adulte, j'ai seulement été la plus désastreuse des employées. Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam révèlera qu'à la même époque et dans le même lieu, j'ai aussi été la fiancée d'un Tokyoïte très singulier." (A. N.) Une initiation amoureuse et culturelle, drôle, savoureuse, insolite et instructive (si les codes de la société japonaise demeurent souvent impénétrables, l'étranger qu'est l'Occidental est aussi source de quiproquos et de malentendus...).
Nos hallamos ante un libro autobiográfico que también es una apología contagiosa del apetito. No obstante haber padecido anorexia durante dos años , en el relato Amélie Nothomb explica su vida a traves del hambre y reivindica una avidez y una glotoneria en mucho registros: hambre de lenguas, de libros, de alcohol, de chocolate, ansia de belleza y de descubrimientos.... Una de las autoras francesas mas populares y con mas proyeccion internacional. Con "Estupor y temblores" gano el Gran premio de la Academia Francesa y el premio Internet, otorgado por primera vez por los lectores internautas. Flavia Company, de el Periodico, afirma que el enorme exito de "Estupor y temblores" supone el reconocimiento no solo de la critica, sino tambien del publico, de una autora que desde hace tiempo lo merece por la creacion de un mundo propio, rico y singular. Esta escritora, que "ha conseguido el prodigio de gustar al mayor numero de lectores" (Le Monde), fue elegida, en una encuesta realizada por Le Figaro a 35 criticos literarios, como su escritor favorito de edad inferior a 40 años. Otras obras de la autora, tambien en Quinteto: Estupor y temblores (729826), Metafisica de los tubos (729841) y Cosmetica del enemigo (729854).
La première fois que je me vis dans un miroir, je ris : je ne croyais pas que cétait moi. À présent, quand je regarde mon reßet, je ris : je sais que cest moi. Et tant de hideur a quelque chose de
« Pour un écrivain, il nest pas de plus grande tentation que décrire la biographie de son assassin. Robert des noms propres : un titre de dictionnaire pour évoquer tous les noms quaura dits ma meu
Trabajos absurdos, órdenes dementes, tareas repetitivas, humillaciones grotescas, misiones ingratas, superiores sádicos, la joven belga Amélie, de 22 años, empieza en contabilidad, luego a servir cafes, pasa a la fotocopiadora y, descendiendo los escalones de la dignidad, acaba ocupandose de los lavabos... masculinos.
stunningly funny novel about the gap between East and West, and the story of a young woman who falls straight into it. Winner of the Grand Prix de l''Academie Franç:aise and the Prix Internet du Livre, this taut tour-de-force of a novel created a sensation in France, where it has sold nearly half a million copies. Fear and Trembling tells the story of Amelie, a young Western woman who spends a year working at a Japanese corporation. She soon learns that at theYumimoto Corporation hierarchy means everything. Keep to your place and you survive; break ranks and you will be broken. The determined but hapless Amelie makes mistake after mistake, not least of which is deigning to sympathize with her immediate superior, the beautiful, efficient, and ice-cold Miss Mori. A perverse process of ritual humiliation follows. But even as Amelie''s life at theYumimoto Corporation spirals inexorably and hilariously downward, what she learns about herself and her colleagues in this brilliant novel will alternately delight and outrage readers. Not since Marguerite Duras has a novelist so indelibly marked the differences between East and West, and with such seductive honesty.
