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The Book of Proper Names
2002 novel by Amélie Nothomb From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Book of Proper Names[1] (French: Robert des noms propres) is a Belgian novel by Amélie Nothomb.[2][3][4] It was first published in 2002. It is a romanticized account of the life of the singer RoBERT,[5][6] whom Nothomb became acquainted with as an avid admirer of her songs.[7]
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Plot
In a vaguely surreal story, an extraordinary little girl is born from strange circumstances - her mother murdered her father, gave birth in prison, and then hanged herself. Plectrude, as the girl is unfortunately named by her mother, is adopted by her aunt and lives a fairy-like existence until she enrolls into the Paris Opera Ballet School, a rigorous institution portrayed as a "scalpel to slice away the last flesh of childhood."[8][9][10]
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