Inevitably, the doom hovering over plectrude's life from birth returns to haunt her, and in the end she learns to survive in the only way she knows how-by committing an act of deadly self-preservation her mother would have perhaps understood best.
Plectrude's great gift turns out to be for ballet, and she throws herself into dance as if her life depended upon it.įew novels have shown us the implacable and unforgiving world of ballet with more intuitive sympathy, yet also with a keen-eyed assessment of the true price of artistic perfection. The novel therefore begins on the borderline between tragedy and absurdity, but as plectrude grows-raised by a loving, indulgent, and eccentric aunt-it becomes a deeply moving and simultaneously chilling portrait of girlhood. She is arrested and thrown into prison, where she gives birth to the child, names her, to everyone's bafflement, plectrude-an obscure saint, and an albatross of a name-and then hangs herself. The mother confesses openly to what she has done, and why. Before the child's birth her nineteen-year-old mother shoots and kills her nineteen-year-old (and somewhat feckless) father because she hates the names he's devised for their child-she fears they will doom their unborn child to mediocrity. The book of proper names is set in contemporary paris, its main character an orphan named plectrude. Book of Deadly Names As Revealed to King Solomon by Jinn King.ĭescription: Read Now The Book Of Proper Names by Amelie Nothomb and you can download with pub, pdf, txt, doc, and more file format with free account. Download this entire book in one Adobe Acrobat PDF File, 1.0 Mb, 241 pages.
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