Since the publication of her first novel in 1992 Amélie Nothomb continues to engage and to
provoke her readers through her exploration of the fluid boundaries between beauty and
monstrosity good and evil fable and reality as well as by her fascinating presentation of
childhood anorexia and the abject. In Amélie Nothomb: Authorship Identity and Narrative
Practice the first full-length study in English of Nothomb's work these elements are
presented and interpreted from a variety of perspectives with the contributors focusing on a
single novel or comparing different texts. Comprised of a collection of essays on her
autobiographical and fictional works with contributions from her anglophone translators it
also includes an interview with the author a preface by the eminent writer and critic Jacques
de Decker and a bibliography of secondary works. Nothomb's works and the critical responses to
them are contextualized in a general introduction and organized under the following key themes:
autobiography and gender identity representations of the body and narrative practice. This
collection is an essential resource for students and scholars of twentieth-century contemporary
literature and gender studies.
