Michel Houellebecq es un novelista francés provocador cuya obra divide tanto a críticos como a lectores, situándolo a menudo en una tradición de disidencia literaria. Sus escritos diseccionan sin tapujos temas como la alienación, el consumismo y la búsqueda de sentido en un mundo moderno aparentemente absurdo. Los lectores pueden esperar un estilo caracterizado por el realismo crudo, el humor negro y una honestidad descarnada que confronta verdades incómodas sobre la naturaleza humana. A pesar de la controversia, su importancia literaria y su voz única han consolidado su reputación como una voz contemporánea destacada.
Una visión feroz y sarcástica del presente a través de dos hermanastros cuarentones, Michel, un investigador en biología que vive como un monje, ha renunciado al sexo y sólo pasea para ir al supermercado, y Bruno, profesor de literatura, consumidor de pornografía, misógino, racista y virtuoso del resentimiento. Una novela demoledora sobre una generación derrotada de la mano del más contundente escritor francés vivo.
Michel es parisino, cuarentón, funcionario en un ministerio. Incapaz de experimentar ninguna emoción. Después de la muerte de su padre decide partir: unas vacaciones en Tailandia. en el oasis del turismo sexual, Michel vive un encuentro imprevisto: conoce
La posibilidad de una isla es la historia de Daniel, famoso por sus monólogos cáusticos en los que mezcla la provocación con una visión fría y cruel de la existencia. protagonista narra los últimos años de su vida, sus relaciones sexuales amorosas con Isabelle y con Esther, su contacto con una secta cuyos miembros aseguran que el ser humano alcanzará la inmortalidad. Temas filosóficos, sociales, políticos científicos, clonación y sexo, juventud y vejez, violencia y deseo… Toda la fuerza del pensamiento de Houellebecq se cruza en una trama donde las ideas tiran a dar.
In 2008 Houellebecq and Levy, two of France's most celebrated intellectuals, began a ferocious exchange of letters, resulting in this book. In their inimitably witty, fascinating, and confrontational correspondence they lock horns on everything, including literature, sex, politics, family, fame, and even themselves."
In this prescient work, Michel Houellebecq focuses his considerable analytical skills on H. P. Lovecraft, the seminal, enigmatic horror writer of the early 20th century. Houellebecq’s insights into the craft of writing illuminate both Lovecraft and Houellebecq’s own work. The two are kindred spirits, sharing a uniquely dark worldview. But even as he outlines Lovecraft’s rejection of this loathsome world, it is Houellebecq’s adulation for the author that drives this work and makes it a love song, infusing the writing with an energy and passion not seen in Houellebecq’s other novels to date.
From the notorious, bestselling author of ATOMISED: a scholarly love letter on the hugely influential and reclusive literary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft 'Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.' In this prescient work, now with an introduction by Stephen King, Michel Houellebecq, the controversial and bestselling author of ATOMISED, focuses his considerable analytical skills on H.P. Lovecraft - one of the seminal horror writers of the early 20th century. Houellebecq's insights into the craft of writing illuminate both Lovecraft and Houellebecq's own work. The two are kindred spirits, sharing a uniquely dark worldview. But even as he outlines Lovecraft's rejection of this loathsome world, it is Houellebecq's adulation for the author that drives this work and makes it a love song, infusing the writing with an energy and passion that characterises Houellebecq's new novel. This is indispensable reading for anyone interested in Lovecraft, Houellebecq, or the past and future of horror.
Traces the experiences of artist Jed Martin, who rises to international success as a portrait photographer before helping to solve a heinous crime that has lasting repercussions for his loved ones.
In "Annihilation," set in a deteriorating France in 2027, Paul Raison navigates a tense political landscape amid cyberattacks while grappling with family dynamics following his father's stroke. Michel Houellebecq infuses his narrative with newfound compassion, blending rage and tenderness in this thought-provoking novel.
Who, among you, deserves eternal life? Daniel is a highly successful stand-up comedian who has made a career out of playing outrageously on the prejudices of his public. But at the beginning of the twenty-first century, he has begun to detest laughter in particular and mankind in general. Despite this, Daniel is unable to stop himself believing in the possibility of love. A thousand years on, war, drought and earthquakes have decimated the earth and Daniel24 lives alone in a secure compound - his only companion, a cloned dog named Fox. Outside, the remnants of the human race roam in packs, while Daniel24 attempts to decipher his predecessor's history. In a nightmarish vision of the implosion of the modern world, he, like his predecessor attempts to fathom the meaning of love, sex, suffering and regret.
A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France’s most famous living literary figure It’s 2022. François is bored. He’s a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famed nineteenth-century novelist associated with the Decadent movement. But François’s own decadence is of considerably smaller scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, and watches YouPorn. Meanwhile, it’s election season, and in an alliance with the Socialists, France’s new Islamic party sweeps to power—and Islamic law is instituted. Women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged, and François is offered an irresistible academic advancement—on the condition that he converts to Islam. A darkly comic masterpiece from one of France’s great writers, Submission by Michel Houellebecq has become an international sensation and one of the most discussed novels of our time.
