“A Dictionary of Proper Names” is one of the most unusual novels by the brilliant Amelie Nothomb. Competing in plot construction with the great master of the...

Fear and Trembling is the most famous novel by the Belgian Amelie Nothomb. It was nominated for the Goncourt Prize, was awarded the French Academy Prize (Gra...

Conversations with strangers do not end well, especially in Nothomb's novels. Sitting at the airport waiting for a delayed flight, Angouste is forced to endu...

The novels “Biography of Hunger” and “Love Sabotage” are autobiographical, if you believe the author-character, the author-werewolf, who plays with the reade...

To love so much as to commit a crime for the sake of love—isn’t that possible? But to love in such a way as to condemn a loved one to torment or even take th...

To love so much as to commit a crime for the sake of love—isn’t that possible? And to love in such a way as to condemn to torment or even take the life of a ...

“Swallow's Diary” is woven from an artificial, harmless nightmare. A young man finds a great way to overcome prolonged depression by changing his job as a co...

The plot of the novel “Sulfuric Acid” takes place in an ultra-modern concentration camp, created in the image and likeness of the Nazi ones for an unpreceden...

The novel “Love Sabotage” is autobiographical, according to the author-character, the author-werewolf, who plays with the reader like a cat with a mouse. Bef...

The famous writer, Nobel Prize winner Pretextat Tax is close to death. The old recluse and misanthrope is besieged by a crowd of reporters in the hope of get...