by Amélie Nothomb · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253164326
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«Une forme de vie» is the novel by Amélie Nothomb, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (122 pages, in French).
The novel is presented as the correspondence between the author and Melvin Mapple, an American soldier stationed in Baghdad. Mapple, who suffers from obesity, writes to her to share his strange form of resistance: gaining weight as a rejection of war. Nothomb responds by proposing he turn his body into a work of body art, and from this exchange emerges a reflection on writing, fiction, and the boundaries between life and art.
Work in French, originally published in 2010 and reissued in 2012 in the Le Livre de Poche collection, number 32416. The book includes 122 pages.
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.
