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Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
Category: Fiction
"Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than in practice, his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated. Both are symptomatic members of our atomise ...Show more
Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
Category: Fiction
Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common, but little else. In this bilious and darkly funny dissection of modern lives and loves, the brothers are symptomatic members of an atomised society.
H.P. Lovecraft - Against the World by Michel Houellebecq (with an introduction by Stephen King)
Category: Biography Memoir
"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 Houellebe ...Show more
H P Lovecraft Against the World Against Life by Houellebecq Michel
Category: General Biography
H. P. Lovecraft - Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq
Category: Biography
Best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq pays tribute to the master of horror, H. P. LovecraftPart biographical sketch, part pronouncement on existence and literature, the best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq's H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, was published in France i ...Show more
H.P. Lovecraft : Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq
Category: Culture
'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 Houelle ...Show more
In the Presence of Schopenhauer by Michel Houellebecq; Andrew Brown (Translator)
Category: Politics
The work of Michel Houellebecq - one of the most widely read and controversial novelists of our time - is marked by the thought of Schopenhauer. When Houellebecq came across a copy of Schopenhauer's Aphorisms in a library in his mid-twenties, he was bowled over by it and he hunted down a copy of his maj ...Show more
Interventions 2020 by Michel Houellebecq
Category: Philosophy
The death of God in the West was the prelude to a formidable metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity's masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the promise of eternal participation in the Absolute. When that dream evaporated, various attempts were made ...Show more
Jeff Koons Versailles by Michel Houellebecq
Category: Art
Text by Anette Husch, Peter-Klaus Schuster.
Lanzarote by Michel Houellebecq
Category: Fiction
Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to book a week in the sun. Sensitive to his limited means and dislike of Muslim countries, the travel agent suggests an island full of 21st century hedonism, set in a bizarre lu ...Show more
Lanzarote by Michel Houellebecq
Category: Fiction
In the follow-up to his hugely successful and critically acclaimed Atomised, Houellebecq explores the hedonism of Lanzarote, the archetypal Mediterranean holiday island, in a book that is blisteringly funny and acid. In the sector of the holiday market that caters for sun, sangria and house music, n ...Show more
Platform by Michel Houellebecq
Category: Fiction
When he comes into some money, Michel takes a leave of absence from his Civil Service job and embarks on a package tour to Thailand, where he meets Valerie. This leads to an attempt to set up a package-holiday company offering consenting adults sexual tourism in the third world.