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 [...]
Hello! // May 18, 2008 at 4:52 pm
I say hooray for mama! I never knew who Michel was until I read the Guardian piece on his mother, Lucie!
I raise my glass to her, for she is one hell of a lady.
She gives as good as she gets. Some older people are weak and infirm and cannot defend themselves. This lady tells it like it is. We can only hope to be able to kick a little ass when we are this age.
This woman was a professional working in the medical field. She states that she has been on her own and supporting since the age of 17.
I like humane and responsible parents who know that they have no business raising children and place them with loving relatives. Here in America, children are just aborted or dumped in the trash bin left to die.
I salute this lady. I absolutely giggle with delight at the thought of such moxy. Readers say that the 50-year-old infant she gave birth to absolutely inherited his gift for words from her!
Touche mom! Happy Mother’s Day!