by Amélie Nothomb · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253109280
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«Robert des noms propres» is the novel by Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (189 pages, in French).
The novel follows Plectrude, a girl born in prison after her mother killed her father, and raised by her uncles as a capricious princess. Her unusual education takes her from the ballet of the Opera to an obsessive relationship with the Le Robert dictionary and to anorexia, in a portrait of a rebellious and singular young woman.
The work was originally published in 2002; this paperback edition is from 2004 and is part of the Le Livre de Poche collection (number 30144).
For a general adult audience interested in contemporary French fiction and in the work of Amélie Nothomb.
Baroness Fabienne Claire Nothomb, better known by her pen name Amélie Nothomb, is a Belgian Francophone novelist. Part of her childhood was spent in Asia.
