Amélie Nothomb often talks about love in her books. But on a daily basis, the novelist, who has just celebrated her 59th birthday, has more difficulty seducing. The writer confided in “Psychologies” …
Amélie Nothomb, who releases her next book So much the better On August 25, in which she evokes her relationship with her mother, experienced a complex adolescence. The novelist, now 59, had confided in Psychologies On his relationship with seduction …
Amélie Nothomb, not seductive for a penny: “I lived as an object of disgust”
While questioned about her relationship to seduction, the Belgian from a noble family retorted: “To seduce? I would have loved it! But I lived as such an object of disgust that it would have been impossible!“. During her youth, the daughter of the late diplomat Patrick Nothomb would never have dared to flirt anyone!
It must be said that Amélie Nothomb experienced some embarrassing moments during her adolescence: “One day, my parents had registered me in a rally. They said to me, ‘It’s to teach you to dance.’ The first time, so I went to soft jeans, which seemed adequate for a dance class. I quickly saw that I hadn’t understood anything. The next time, I arrived engaged in a grotesque way, I drank and I finish on the ground, screaming. A boy put me on his shoulder like a bag of potatoes and placed me outside. I was never invited to me, but I was relieved“”
Amélie Nothomb, as a couple: “I prefer to live in hiding”
Now, the native novelist of the flat country is however happy as a couple … with a French! “”We do what we can“, she had dropped to Paris Match Before explaining: “This is also why my life is in Paris“.
Despite everything, Amélie Nothomb does not wish to marry: “It never made me dream. Love goes by an institution, I prefer to live in hiding“And she never wanted to have children.”My God is far too dangerous. Above all, I am too often pregnant with my countless children“, she said before clarifying that she was referring to her books:”Right now, I’m carrying my 105th. And this morning, by going to get my passport to the town hall, I glimpsed my 106th. As a good mother, I count those who have not been published and I know their place in siblings“.
