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Title	:	Hygiène de l'assassin
Author	:	Amélie Nothomb
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 221 pages
Published	:	January 6th 2005 by Le Livre de Poche (first published August 28th 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. France. Novels. Contemporary. European Literature. French Literature

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Prétextat Tach, prix Nobel de littérature, n’a plus que deux mois à vivre. Des journalistes du monde entier sollicitent des interviews de l’écrivain que sa misanthropie tient reclus depuis des années. Quatre seulement vont le rencontrer, dont il se jouera selon une dialectique où la mauvaise foi et la logique se télescopent. La cinquième lui tiendra tête, il se prendra au jeu. Si ce roman est presque entièrement dialogué, c’est qu’aucune forme ne s’apparente autant à la torture. Les échanges, de simples interviews, virent peu à peu à l’interrogatoire, à un duel sans merci où se dessine alors un homme différent, en proie aux secrets les plus sombres. Dans ce premier roman d’une extraordinaire intensité, Amélie Nothomb manie la cruauté, le cynisme et l’ambiguïté avec un talent accompli.

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Original Title:	Hygiène de l'assassin
ISBN:	225311118X (ISBN13: 9782253111184)
Edition Language:	French
Characters:	Prétextat Tach
Literary Awards:	BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction longlist (2011), Prix Alain-Fournier (1993), Prix René Fallet (1993)

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I admit the language use for the author's age when written, twenty-five, is impressive, but I still did not like the novel as a whole. I like a surreal, magical realism, even unbelievable read every so often, but this was a little much for me. There was a clear indication if creativity and ingenuity on the author's part but I did not find myself appreciating any of the characters. I look forward to seeing what else she has written.

How to ReadReading is therapy for the dread of chaos. Thinking can only make chaos more obvious, and therefore more dreadful. Sex provides merely a temporary distraction from chaos, an interlude between dreadful moments. Gluttony and drugs can be effective remedies for the feelings generated by chaos but they have unfortunate side effects. No, it is only reading that provides a lasting cure for the chaotic meaninglessness of life. Reading does not answer questions, it frames them so that chaos

This remarkable novel is written almost entirely in dialogue, though 'relentless volleys of acerbic banter' may well be a superior description. At the centre of this unorthodox theatre, is the dying (and decaying) novelist Pretextat Tach - an absurd, reclusive prick. Preparing for his imminent death from the rare Elzenveiverplatz disease, he grants five journalists a rare audience. His motivations are unclear - is it to massage his hyper-inflated ego, or merely to entertain a bored man facing

I enjoy reading Vladimir Nabokov but I'm aware of his disdain for his readers. I've come across lines in his books which make that disdain too clear to ignore. It's true that those lines are often addressed to critics/reviewers for whom he seemed to harbour particular contempt, as in this line from The Gift, one hears the flippantly flat little voice of the reviewer (perhaps even of the female sex). But the disdain feels directed at readers too. It's in the way he repeats episodes from one book

Theres not much in this world more delicious than good dialogue. Banter, a back and forth that takes on a life its own, never feeling forced, driving a story to places youd never expect to be taken. Its not often a novel comprised of almost exclusively dialogue-driven passages has such a life to it, a three-dimensional quality that excessive detail would only hamper. But thats exactly the situation with Nothombs Hygiene and the Assassin. This is the first of Nothombs works, published in 1992

omg !! i'm confuesed

The popular and prolific Belgian novelist Amélie Nothomb is devilishly clever at creating bizarre scenarios and, to say the least, off-beat characters. "Hygiène de l'assassin" was her debut novel (1992) and many still classify it as her best, although I would give that award, by a slight margin, to "Stupeur et Tremblements," a story about a young European woman trying and failing to assimilate into the Japanese working world (Nothomb grew up in Japan). It is fitting, I suppose, that a novelist's