Higiene Of The Assassin
(Amélie Nothomb)
The days of Pretextat Tach are counted. The Nobel Prize of literature, misanthropist lives as an hermit since years. When the press learned that he only had only two months remaining to live, the journalists of the whole world pressed themselves at his door to obtain the Interview. His secretary undertook to select the five lucky reporters who will have the privilege to be seen granting the ultimate one, the only discussion with the genius. Sitting at a table at the terrace of a coffee in front of his residence, they will be able to observe and comment the manège of Tach. The first finds him in a quasi-complete darkness, he acknowledges to have given up writing several decades earlier and to have only funds of drawers published since then. The writer quickly put an end to the meeting: his ugliness, the darkness, the fear and the claustrophobia wins of this small scribbler who disrespected him. The second comes back sick as a horse because he had spoken about The disgusting food practices of the author. This last one is oh so happy to be able to get rid of these scribblers with their silly questions, tasting their lack of culture and the absence of tact. The third one annoys him one, and he throws him out without further notice. The fourth undergoes the same fate. Far from having collected the needed information to write a good paper, the poor ones disgusted by his character went back to their newspaper with empty hands and with a stain in their self esteem. The fifth journalist will surprise him. By her intelligence and thanks to the research she undertook on him, she will end up facing him on his field of predilection: murder. He will not throw her out. He will answer her questions and will make more than bringing her the strings of her success, he will make her share the hygiene of the assassin. Amélie Nothomb likes gothic environments, face to faces and verbal jousts. As in most of her books, she confronts a man and what could be its conscience, pushing them towards a brutal final confrontation. In Hygiene of the assassin, she makes us discover the locked up universe of a man who lives according to his own rules, and who cannot suffer to have to yield in the world such as he is. She introduces us to a genius of evil, shows him as an antipathetic person, and kills him without the slightest remorse. Having us live by through the journalist?s eyes the torture to have to face the secret behind the Fat one.
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