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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.
Lieshout then asked Iggy Pop if he could possibly provide a track for the film, with little hope; but to his surprise, the singer replied very enthusiastically: in the meantime he had actually read the book (as well as a selection of Houellebecq's poetry), and loved it, finding many parallels with his own life and state of mind, to the point ...
Platform (French: Plateforme) is a 2001 novel by French writer Michel Houellebecq (translated into English by Frank Wynne). It has received both great praise and great criticism, most notably for the novel's apparent condoning of sex tourism and Islamophobia .
It appeared soon after Houellebecq's novels Whatever and Atomised had become subjects of international discussions and it was marketed as a key to the "real Houellebecq". [3] Alexander Müller of literaturkritik.de [ de ] said it will disappoint people who approach it for that reason, comparing it negatively to Houellebecq's novels in its ...
A film based on the novel, La Possibilité d'une île, premiered in France on September 10, 2008. The film was directed by Houellebecq himself. An excerpt from the novel is featured on the music album Comme si de rien n'était by Carla Bruni (track 2).
Atomised, also known as The Elementary Particles (French: Les Particules élémentaires), is a novel by the French author Michel Houellebecq, published in France in 1998.. It tells the story of two half-brothers, Michel and Bruno, and their mental struggles against their situations in modern soci