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Dictionary of Proper Names is one of the most unusual novels by the brilliant Amélie Nothombe. Competing in the construction of the plot with the great master of the theater of the absurd, Eugene Ionesco, Nothombe places herself in the space of a stylized nightmare, as if urging the reader not to understand everything she writes literally. In the story of how a name determines fate, one can see both a fairy tale and a parody of a fairy tale - an apology for nonsense, an extravaganza played out in the theater of the absurd. The girl, who bears a rare and difficult to pronounce name - Plektruda, is born under very sad circumstances: her nineteen-year-old mother shot her husband a month before giving birth and, having given birth to a child in prison, hanged herself. This is the beginning of the book. The end is no less dramatic. However, Amelie Nothombe knows how to turn everything inside out.