This just shows that you can use almost anyone as a good source for character building. Even your mother. read the article, it’s heart warming.
In his seminal 1998 novel “Les particules elementaires,” known in English as “Atomised,” Houellebecq vented a lifetime of anger against his mother by portraying her as an egocentric, sexually promiscuous hippie who neglected her children.
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN0137893420080501
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elizaw // May 5, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Ugh. Poor mother, your baby is interfering with your travel plans and love life. He must be an awful person. That woman is a nightmare.
Lucie Ceccaldi, Mother of the Year » Teeny Manolo // May 8, 2008 at 3:48 pm
[...] I think our intrepid reportorial friends at the Guardian have come up with the one to beat. Yes, in Lucie Ceccaldi, mother of French literary bad boy Michel Houellebecq, we have our Brutus, our Secretariat, our [...]
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