by Amélie Nothomb · Magnard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782210754959
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Stupeur et Tremblements» is the novel by Amélie Nothomb, published by Magnard in paperback (176 pages, in French).
In 1990, in Japan, Amélie is hired as an interpreter at Yumimoto, an import-export company, and her dream of living as a Japanese woman clashes with a reality governed by other laws. The retrospective narrative recounts workplace alienation with humor and irony, and asks how to resist humiliation and group violence with words.
Classiques & Contemporains collection (no. 84). School edition with analysis of Alain Corneau's adaptation and interview with Amélie Nothomb and Sylvie Testud.
Didactic edition designed for the French school curriculum, with complete text and classroom materials; recommended for troisième and lycée pro.
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.
