Hygiene of the assassin

Hygiène of the assassin is the Romance first of Amélie Nothomb published in 1992.

Summary of the history

The famous novelist Prétextat Tach is not reached a syndrome of Elzenveiverplatz, Cancer of the cartilages (it is about an imaginary name of syndrome, invented by the author), and does not have any more but two months to live. At once, many journalists hasten to collect from Tach the testimony which will hold place of scoop with feelings. But after the first interviews, one realizes that Tach is obese crossbred of a Misanthrope of the last species, sour, intolerant, provocative and Misogyne, which does not support of anything the questions which are posed to him on its private life and pushes the audacity until directing itself the debates and inserting its victims of the press in a pond of nausea. Thus, all the talks turn short, leaving on their hunger the candidates to the scoop, until an unknown person of the precedents asserts in her turn like the host of misfortune of the novelist. But there, it is about a woman. Before it, the journalists were only men. Consequently, maintenance takes the form of a confrontation between the journalist and the Nobel Prize of literature, where this one will defy, in a door - impregnated field of mysteries, the mysoginie ordurière of Tach and to manage to be made accept. Little by little, to the wire of the questions and the answers, Tach will be seen confronted with the demons of its life of formerly…

Adaptation to the cinema

Difference between the novel and the film : The film deletes all the chapter where the four journalists are made drive out by the writer and adds an investigation with police officers.

Adaptation for the theater

With the small theater of Paris in 1998

Adaptation for the opera

In 1995, Daniel Schell carried out a opera, writing the booklet and the music.

External bond

  • Summarized novel
  • Bond for the opera

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