"Until I wrote this book, I hadn't realized I was an orphan": the unpublished dialogue between Amélie Nothomb and Catherine Millet, who wrote about their mothers
Interview The author of "The Sexual Life of Catherine M." and the Belgian writer of "Stupeur et Tremblements" each published a book dedicated to their deceased mother and are talking here for the first time.
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It's exactly noon at the Bar Aristide, Hôtel Lutetia, Paris. Dressed all in black, Amélie Nothomb arrives first. Catherine Millet follows her, immediately noting that, although they have already crossed paths, the two writers have never really had the opportunity to get to know each other. Yet they have in common the fact that they have dedicated two of the most powerful texts of this season to the death of their mother.
Simone Emonet committed suicide some forty years ago. Her daughter, the writer Catherine Millet, recounts in a story filled with intelligence and ubiquitous humor how life weighed crushingly on this woman whose existence she traces. Danièle, Amélie Nothomb's mother,…
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