UID:
almahu_9948664178402882
Format:
1 online resource (229 p.)
Edition:
1st, New ed.
ISBN:
9783035300123
Series Statement:
Modern French Identities 70
Content:
Michel Houellebecq is a French author whose profile in the English-speaking world is unusually high. He is an author who has put the humour back into the Absurd, without losing any of the awareness of the bleakness of the human condition. Undoubtedly one of the most trenchant satirists of our time, he deflates the projected utopias that we imagine protect us from the ills that beset us. More than many other novelists, his work is a reflection of the social and economic reality of life in a post-industrial society. Houellebecq 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 scrutiny of our various attempts to confront and transcend the fundamental reality of the human condition, in particular the horror of death.
Note:
Contents: Michel Houellebecq: Author of our Times –Extension du domaine de la lutte: Fighting to Survive? – Les Particules élémentaires: A Tale of Two Humanities – Lanzarote: A Detour? – Plateforme: Writing about Sex-tourism – La Possibilité d’une île: Life is Real.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783039113736
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3726/978-3-0353-0012-3
URL:
https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/10607?format=EPDF
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