Dictionary of Proper Names
3 hrs. 48 min.
Description
Dictionary of Proper Names is one of the most unusual novels by the brilliant Amélie Nothomb. Competing in plot construction with the great master of the theater of the absurd, Eugène Ionesco, Nothomb places herself as well in the space of a stylized nightmare, as if urging the reader not to take everything she has invented literally. A girl bearing a rare and difficult-to-pronounce name — Plectrude — is born under very sad circumstances: a month before giving birth, her nineteen-year-old mother shot her husband and, after giving birth to the child in prison, hanged herself. Such is the beginning of the book. Its ending is no less dramatic. However, Amélie Nothomb knows how to turn everything inside out.
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