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Michel Houellebecq
Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward Christmas dinner with his…
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Michel is a civil-servant, an account manager at the Ministry of Culture. When his father is murdered and he comes into some money, Michel takes leave of absence to go…
Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. This is the story of two brothers, but the subject of the novel is in its dismantling of…
The new novel from the bestselling, highly acclaimed and always controversial author of Atomised.
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Houellebecq’s Serotonin is a scathing, frightening, hilarious, raunchy, offensive, politically incorrect novel about the current state of Europe, Western civilization, and mankind in general.
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As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Ben Abbes…
Michel Houellebecq, Won Prix Goncourt in 2010 for The Map and the Territory
A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until he’s packed off with a colleague - the sexually-frustrated Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use…
In this prescient work, Houellebecq focuses his considerable analytical skills on H.P. Lovecraft, the seminal, enigmatic horror writer of the early 20th century.
A stunning political thriller from the author of Serotonin and Submission about faith and family, love and mortality, social upheaval and political controversy.
In Michel Houellebecq's Annihilation, it is 2027…
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Bernard-Henri Levy,Michel Houellebecq
The international publishing sensation is now available in the United States–two brilliant, controversial authors confront each other and their enemies in an unforgettable exchange of letters. Public Enemies is a…
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The first three novels by Michel Houellebecq, which launched him into literary stardom and placed him at the center of the polemic. The three are characterized by resentful and lethargic…
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Dr Carole Sweeney (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)
A critical study of the work of the French novelist Michel Houellebecq –
Murielle Lucie Clement
Laureat du prix Goncourt 2010, Michel Houellebecq reste un auteur controverse des Lettres francaises. Michel Houellebecq. Sexuellement correct se focalise sur l'Eros dans l'oeuvre, et forme le troisieme volet de…
The novel centers around Michel, a forty-year-old exhibits agent for the French Ministry of Culture. In the opening chapter, he must deal with his father’s murder.
Translation of: Extension du domaine de la lutte.
La collection Connaitre une oeuvre vous offre la possibilite de tout savoir de La Possibilite d'une ile de Michel Houellebecq grace a une fiche de lecture aussi complete que detaillee…
La collection Connaitre une oeuvre vous offre la possibilite de tout savoir du roman La Carte et le territoire de Michel Houellebecq grace a une fiche de lecture aussi complete…
Features a selection of poems chosen from four collections that shines a fresh light on Michel Houellebecq and emphasises the radical singularity of his work. Drawing on similar themes as…
Venez decouvrir le roman de Michel Houellebecq grace a une analyse litteraire de reference. Ecrite par un specialiste universitaire, cette fiche de lecture est recommandee par de nombreux enseignants. Cet…
An international phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a furiously important novel that tells the story of two deeply disturbed half brothers. A novel of big, domineering themes, this book plumbs…
This is a satirical look at the present day through the eyes of two stepbrothers in their forties. Michel is a researcher who lives like a monk, having renounced sex…
Translation of: La carte et le territoire.
Michel quits his job, and tries to help Valerie and her boss, Jean-Yves, in their ailing travel business, by offering travel packages based on sex tourism in the third world…
A … selection of poems chosen from four collections, … Unreconciled shines a fresh light on Michel Houellebecq and reveals the radical singularity of his work. Drawing on themes that…
Title of original edition: La carte et le territoire, Flammarion, Paris, 2010.
John McCann
Shows a world of violence and tension, a world where people find it hard to be at ease, so that life becomes a process of disease. This book foregrounds Houellebecq’s…
Nurit Buchweitz
This book analyses the particularities of Michel Houellebecq’s poetics in the context of literary tradition, intertextual relations, psycho-cultural aspects and social semiotics, alongside contacts with the contemporary field of art.
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Venez decouvrir La Carte et le Territoire de Michel Houellebecq grace a une analyse litteraire de reference ! Ecrite par un specialiste universitaire, cette fiche de lecture est recommandee par…
On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of its release, the album Prsence humaine of Michel Houellebecq, famous French writer, is edited for the first time in a white transparent…
Florent-Claude Labrouste is forty-six years old, he hates his name and he takes Captorix, an antidepressant that releases serotonin and that has three adverse effects: nausea, disappearance of libido and…
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Im vorliegenden Buch werden unterschiedliche Formen der Gesellschaftskritik anhand ausgewahlter Werke von Michel Houellebecq ( Extension du domaine de la lutte , Les Particules elementaires und Plateforme ), Frederic Beigbeder…
Russell Williams
In Pathos, Poetry and Politics, Russell Williams examines the literary style in the work of Michel Houellebecq. This book underlines the extent to which the author’s notorious provocations are key…
Louis Betty (Assistant Professor of French, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater)
Addresses the religious, metaphysical, and existential dimensions of French novelist Michel Houellebecq’s work. Argues that Houellebecq is the foremost contemporary chronicler of the spiritual anxieties of Western and specifically French…
Ben Jeffery
An interrogation of art’s ability to face unpleasant truths.
M Houellebecq
Originally published in French as: Interventions 2020. [Paris]: Flammarion, 2020.
Actes du colloque international … organisae aa l'Universitae d'Aix-Marseille du 4 au 6 mai 2012 –Page facing title page.
This work aims to enhance the way we read Michel Houellebecq. The collection brings together widely diverse research on the critical reception of his work and the Houellebecq phenomenon in…
Chloe de Smet,Lucile Lhoste,Lepetitlitteraire
Decryptez Soumission de Michel Houellebecq avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir de Soumission, ce roman polemique ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette oeuvre dans…
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Michel Houellebecq exposes his intellectual debt to Schopenhauer in this remarkable critique of the philosopher’s thought.
An ode to Schopenhauer by one of France’s most famous living authors –
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The controversial, gripping novel from the bestselling, highly acclaimed author of ATOMISED and SEROTONIN. ‘Essential reading for anyone concerned with the state of the contemporary world’ DAILY MAIL
