Гигиена убийцы

“Here, for example, they say “arms race,” one could just as well say “literature race.” Also a power argument, no worse than any other: every nation rattles its writer - or writers - as a weapon.

"Killer's Hygiene" is the first novel by Amelie Nothombe, the star of European literature. The famous writer Pretextatus Tahu has been diagnosed with a fatal diagnosis, and his days are numbered. In the hope of getting an exclusive interview, sensationalist reporters come to him one after another. All of them fail, and only the young journalist Nina manages to talk the old misanthrope and find out his terrible secret.