My favorite 17

I am far from having read all the books dAmélie Nothomb (but I myself splint) and this is now my favorite. I have trouble understanding the negative reviews of this book even though I respect the differing views. My location opposite the criticism, which somewhat resemble the lynching free. I find that the text is imbued with great humility, NA does not hesitate to make his self-criticism, even its self-flagellation, and without any complacency. I really felt his sincerity and his willingness to engage in naked, as she feels things and think. Yes, it has become a famous writer and then? She mentions a time in the text and that's a fact. Nothing subjective.

France 5 offers him a filmed pilgrimage to the places that have meant a lot to her, and she flew about ten days in the land of the rising sun. She tells us extremely sensory and emotional way his reunion with Japan, cities, landscapes and loved ones that marked his childhood and young adult life, twenty years after his last visit. I liked it speaks for itself, and many phrases have resonated with me: "What is a camera can perceive what is happening in me It captures the turmoil on the surface the lake. I stay in my deep, where no light ever happens. "

She tells us in simple words his ecstasies face art, nature (ah, the Everest from the air ...), the food, the wine ("excellent white wine slips us into the soul" ), and any talks to me even though I do not think these states achieve absolute emptiness she saw sometimes. She Epicurean but did not seek pleasure. It is he who finds it, she was born like that. She knows "receive".
His text is sometimes dotted with more complicated words and I took pleasure in searching the exact definition in the dictionary. Just as I enjoyed reading the poems of the authors she cited in the text (Louise Labé, Gérard de Nerval).

There are also a lot of humor in this text, Amélie Nothomb speaks to us through his, like his fear of being late (for example: "If the taxi driver did not have to face this rigor, I would suspect to fool me ").

I love the cover photo, I find Amélie Nothomb beautiful, graceful, timeless.

This book made me want to discover Japan, although the unnecessary killing this people continues to whales and sharks always repelled me.