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Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
I was just doing that stroll around the shelves thing when my eyes lit on the Literature in Translation section. This sounds a bit pretentious but a while back it seemed like a category I needed to establish, books filed by original language and it's proved invaluable. I spend a lot of time there, stroking the Joseph Roth collection for a start and then he segues into my growing collection of dear...
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Reading matters (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
Thanks to everyone who entered my competition to win a copy of Amélie Nothomb's Sulphuric Acid.I used an online random number generator to select the winner.That means the lucky winner was the 6th person to leave a comment... So congratulations to jeniwren. I'll contact you shortly to find out your postal address.
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Reading matters (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Fancy winning a book? Then I have some good news for you.I have a copy of Amélie Nothomb's Sulphuric Acid -- a dystopian novel that looks at our obsession with reality television -- to give away to one lucky reader. It's a rather slim volume but deals with very weighty -- and occasionally distressing -- subjects, so may not be to everyone's taste. You can find out more by reading my review.To be in...
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Reading matters (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
Fiction - paperback; Faber and Faber; 127 pages; 2008. (Translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside.) When it comes to satire and parody, reality television seems ripe for the picking. I'm not a fan of Ben Elton but I read his very funny and clever send-up of Big Brother, entitled Dead Famous, back in 2002 when the genre was rather new and exciting, if a little tasteless. But now, six years down...
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Sakurazuka No Maboroshi (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
@fouduroi Amélie Nothomb hasn’t created any concept, especially not a Greg House concept. Sir Conan Doyle has. # Nothomb is just a cheap writer anyway. Good enough to read at the beach in summer while watching over the kids. OR NOT. # It just hit me in the face, I’m turning 32 tomorrow. FFS. 32. Already. Ugh. [...]
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Slog (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
The Literary Saloon has a link to a Guardian profile of Amélie Nothomb, the Belgian novelist who writes semiautobiographical fiction. Two of her books, The Character of Rain and Fear and Trembling , have been published over here, and they're both lovely little novels. She writes more than gets published over here, though. A lot more : Sixteen published novels represent only a fraction of her prodigious...
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
In The outsider, in The Guardian, Richard Lea profiles local favourite Amelie Nothomb -- despite having trouble recognising her .....
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Obscene Desserts (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
A passage from a Guardian article about the Belgian author Amélie Nothomb struck a chord: She's always considered herself to be an outsider, though less so since publication. "Before I had this feeling everywhere, with everybody," she says, "I felt marginalised by the whole world. Whereas since I've been published, at least I'm not marginalised by my readers, and since I have a lot of readers that...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Arts & entertainment: Her sparse autobiographical fiction has seen Amélie Nothomb rise to the top of the French literary ladder. Interview by Richard Lea
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Her sparse autobiographical fiction has seen Amélie Nothomb rise to the top of the French literary ladder. Always a figure of alienation, her writing has taught her she's not alone. Interview by Richard Lea
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Amelie Nothomb's Ni d'Eve ni d'Adam.
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
AMELIE NOTHOMB NEVER publishes a book until she is happy with the smell of it. "Some books smell far too personal, some smell much too sweet, some smell bad, very bad … Y
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In Spring It Is the Dawn (Free subscription) | 03/15/2008
I've been doing pretty good at resisting new challenges but not this one. I love reading international literature so this is a great incentive. Plus I found that looking at my lists for other challenges, I already plan to read books by authors from 6 different countries this year. Three more isn't much of a stretch. The bottom line: choose 9 different books, written by 9 different authors, from 9 different...
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seeking spirit (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
Love and Attachment “Knowing what will happen in the future, we are faced with a simple choice: either we resolve not to become attached to people and things, or we decide to love them even more fiercely.” - Amélie Nothomb The Character of Rain While perusing the wonderful Commonplace Book at Whiskey River, I recently came across this [...]
