Word: mother
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...didn't end there. After his final heated dispute with Ceccaldi in 1991, Houellebecq wrote "I knew I would never see my mother again, and I thrilled with joy." Houellebecq later gave an interview in which he described his mother as factually, literally, irrevocably "dead." Now Ceccaldi is back to prove that the filial report of her death was not only exaggerated, but also a really big mistake...
...subjected her to such harsh literary treatment because such abuse is "a good money earner" in a world that flocks to Houellebecq's writing "because the spirit of the day is such garbage that he is in step with the time." For now, Houellebecq is not commenting on his mother's book. Here, apparently, is a rare controversy he seems content to sidestep...
...mother can finally understand what it is that I do all day,” he added...
...boys knew the world only through television and the little that their mother remembered. And so now, Stefan Fritzl, 18, and his little brother Felix, 5, are getting used to sunlight. After spending their entire lives imprisoned in a cramped, windowless cellar deep underground along with their mother, Elisabeth, they are now being cared for in a special wing of a clinic near Amstetten, Austria. Doctors say the boys and their mother are extremely pale. Their older sister Kerstin, 19, is in the hospital and very ill because of the terrible privations she suffered living in the dungeon created...
...condition. Doctors have not specified what she is suffering from. Her admission to a hospital in Amstetten was the trigger that led to the unraveling of Josef Fritzl's double life. The fate of her family came to light after doctors, mystified by her ailment, publicly appealed for her mother to come forward because they needed her medical history. Josef and Elisabeth were then seized by police near the hospital. (See photos of Austria's house of horrors...