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This paper is about the dialectic confrontation between the Protagonist and the Neighbor in Amélie Nothomb's novels which dramatizes what Slavoj Zizek calls overproximity.

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A reading of the works of Nothomb with Lacan, Zizek and Girard.

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This page is a summary of: Overproximity. L’inconsistance de la frontière entre protagoniste et prochain dans les romans d’Amélie Nothomb, Revue Romane Langue et littérature International Journal of Romance Languages and Literatures, September 2015, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/rro.50.1.11alv.
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