Quelbazar read: The Crime of Count Neville, by Amélie Nothomb

Recently, with the departure gift of my former colleagues, I bought myself an e-reader. To try. This thing, we'll talk later. For now, let's talk a little about the readings that allowed me to inaugurate my purchase:

[amazon_link asins=’225307067X’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’jvhgdjz-21′ marketplace=’FR’ link_id=’4e738c5c-06fc-11e7-a927-c3854a8e4356′]Amélie Nothombis a well-known novelist who, about fifteen years ago, gave me the desire to deviate a little from my readings of predilections, techniques or science fiction. I was a little late in her last outings, which she performs, like a metronome, once a year. Some also think that her regular writings are no longer up to what she offered us in her early days. Belgian, daughter of an ambassador, she grew up in Japan. This is a theme that comes up very often in his first novels. But not in that one.

The Crime of Count Nevilleis therefore his "novel of 2015". The"pocket" edition was published in early 2017. Prefaced "What is monstrous is not necessarily unworthy", the plot has as its trigger a rigid and ruined account that is predicted to kill someone by a seer.

I am not comfortable in literary criticism. However, I have a mixed opinion of this book: A somewhat redundant and "tiresome" plot in the writings of A. Nothomb, perhaps? I preferred his book after, released in 2016. I personally found the suspense sought by the author a little "artificial". Moreover, if we trust the readers' reviews at Amazon,we notice that this book is rated below most of the others by the same author.

To read anyway 🙂