The unprecedented dialogue between Amélie Nothomb and Catherine Millet who wrote on their mothers

Interview The author of “The Sexual Life of Catherine M.”. However, the Belgian writer of “stupor and tremors” each publish a book devoted to their deceased mother and dialogue here for the first time.

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Noon right at the Aristide bar, Lutetia hotel, Paris. All dressed in unprecedented dialogue between amélie nothomb black, Amélie Nothomb arrives the first. Catherine Millet follows her. immediately noting that, if they have already crossed, the two writers have never had the opportunity to really get to know each other. However. they have in common that they have devoted two of the strongest texts to this back to school to the death of their mother.

Simone Emonet committed suicide about forty years ago. Her daughter. the writer Catherine Millet, tells in a story carried by an intelligence and an omnipresent humor how the life weighed with a crushing weight on this woman whose existence she retraces. Danièle, Amélie Nothomb’s mother, S …