I'm not one to spit on the writings of Amélie Nothomb and to see it as a pure marketing product, but now I go out of my usual reserve to assert: * Amélie has not tired to align approximate clichés about nostalgia (confused with melancholy). * Amelie gives in the stack of banalities: a former lover, a nanny: ah the time goes! * Amélie feels and can not share: it refers the reader to speculate because it is constantly in the home unspeakable. * Amélie has one thing to say and that thing is contained in the title. * Amélie's "arrival" she says "famous writer" plays divas and is comparable to the biggest. * Amélie does not care about his readers: it sells them dearly pages that a schoolboy would have written an idle evening of blues.
Still, some nuggets: these quotes other writers! Victor Hugo would have written about the readings of a writer: "do not drink cow's milk." We must believe that, without comparing it to a bovid, Amélie Nothomb has been nurtured to desserts.