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Michel Houellebecq (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl wɛlbɛk]; born Michel Thomas on 26 February 1956) is a French author of novels, poems and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Houellebecq published his first novel, Whatever, in 1994.
Jean-François Patricola, Michel Houellebecq ou la provocation permanente (2005). Denis Demonpion, Houellebecq non autorisé, enquête sur un phénomène (2005). Sabine van Wesemael, Michel Houellebecq, le plaisir du texte (2005). Gavin Bowd (ed.), Le Monde de Houellebecq (2006). Murielle Lucie Clément, Michel Houellebecq revisité (2007).
Submission (French: Soumission) is a novel by French writer Michel Houellebecq. [1] The French edition of the book was published on 7 January 2015 by Flammarion, with German (Unterwerfung) and Italian (Sottomissione) translations also published in January. [2] [3] The book instantly became a bestseller in France, Germany and Italy.
Pages in category "Works by Michel Houellebecq" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Interventions (Houellebecq book) P. La Possibilité d ...
Pages in category "Novels by Michel Houellebecq" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Interventions is a collection of texts by the French writer Michel Houellebecq, including essays, interviews and polemical articles. The book exists in three versions, published in 1998, 2009 and 2020. The later versions are mainly expansions with new material, although a few texts only appear the earlier editions.
Kirkus Reviews called the book engaging but said its allusions to French culture and topical issues can be confusing for international readers. [1] Publishers Weekly said the two writers have large egos and continuously return to themselves as subjects of their discussions, but there is "an undeniable pleasure in being privy to this conversation between these two outsize personalities". [2]
Also noted is Houellebecq's exegesis of Lovecraft's racial preoccupations, which he traces to a 24-month period during which Lovecraft lived in the comparatively racially mixed New York City of the 1920s, [3] where, Houellebecq says, Lovecraft learned to take "racism back to its essential and most profound core: fear." He notes the recurring ...