Michel houellebecq is the ageing enfant terrible of french literature. Sep 06, 2015 michel houellebecq is the ageing enfant terrible of french literature. Michel houellebecq audio books, best sellers, author bio. I rarely bash a book, i prefer not to talk about it when i dont like it. A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from frances most famous literary figureparis, 2022. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Zalerts allow you to be notified by email about the availability of new books according to your search query. Platform, houellebecq casts a bleak, highly cynical light upon the. Platform is the most offensive of michel houellebecqs books, mainly because of the antiislamic sentiments. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, reads the classics. Sabine van wesemael, michel houellebecq, le plaisir du texte 2005.
Michel houellebecq primary author only author division. Murielle lucie clement, michel houellebecq revisite 2007. A six ans, il est confie a sa grandmere paternelle, qui est communiste et dont il a adopte le nom houellebecq comme pseudonyme. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Help us improve our author pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography. Michel houellebecq is currently considered a single author. Voici lodyssee desenchantee dun informaticien entre deux ages, jouant son role en observant les mouvements humains et les banalites qui sechangent autour des machines a cafe. Books by michel houellebecq author of the elementary particles. Houellebecq the public figure has emerged from behind his books. Serotonine, michel houellebecq 9789029529020 boeken. Michel houellebecq, casually provocative the new york times. His many bestselling books include platform, the possibility of an island, submission and serotonin. His new book imagines a france ruled by islamists and he has been under 24. Ficiconista, poeta, ensaista, realizador, argumentista, houellebecq e um dos mais traduzidos autores franceses contemporaneos, e tambem um dos mais controversos.
His new book imagines a france ruled by islamists and he has been under 24hour police protection since the charlie hebdo attack. What houellebecq finds in common with lovecraft is his bigotry, which he explores and documents in great length, almost as a justification for his own wild accusations against women, muslims, and the state of capitalism. Submission is the highlyanticipated new novel from the internationally bestselling french writer michel houellebecq. He has, in fact, become the poster child for a movement, prevalent in contemporary french literature, known as autofiction which sees authors unashamedly use fictionalized versions of their own lives in their novels. Je crois a lamour ecrivait recemment michel houellebecq. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading submission. It is one of those books where everything is so bad and depressive that you think that it cant get worse, but it does. Houellebecq has recorded a cd of his poetry, presence humaine tricatel records. It primarily highlights the disaggregating effects of postfordism on the intimate spaces of human affect through the story of a. Huysmans, the famous nineteenthcentury decadent author. Sur le plan economique, raphael tisserand appartient au champ des vainqueurs.
Michel houellebecqs new book may be satirical and melancholic, but it is also hilarious, a comic masterpiece by one of frances. Ranking of michel houellebecq books, from worst to best. Michel houellebecq pronounced mishelle wellbeck is nothing if not an autobiographical writer. Michel houellebecq is a french writer, poet and essayist. His new novel serotonine doesnt really stake out any new ground, but this time the authors. Michel houellebecq wikipedia, a enciclopedia livre. He won the prestigious prix goncourt in 2010 and, in 2019, he was awarded the legion dh. Hes a middleaged lecturer at the sorbonne and an expert on j. Discover more authors youll love listening to on audible. Adam gopnik in the new yorker has said of submission that houellebecq is not merely a satirist butmore unusuallya sincere satirist, genuinely saddened by the absurdities of history and the madnesses of mankind. A novel kindle edition by houellebecq, michel, stein, lorin.