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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.
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
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).
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France Inter described the narrative as a "Houellebecq somewhere between nihilism and romanticism". [1] On Europe 1 Dimitri Pavlenko said, "You might think this is a sinister and pessimistic Houellebecq. But no. Many of the characters are searching for goodness and the message of the book could be: "Love saves". [8]
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.
Houellebecq had started out as a poet, but Configuration du dernier rivage was his first poetry collection since Renaissance [] from 1999. In France, the book was treated as Houellebecq's return to public life, as he was living in Ireland and had avoided media appearances since receiving the Prix Goncourt in 2010 for The Map and the Territory.