Showing posts with label Houellebecq (Michel). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Houellebecq (Michel). Show all posts
11 December 2015

Héléna Marienské: Le Degré suprême de la tendresse (2008)

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In the Prologue to Héléna Marienské's  Le Degré suprême de la tendresse  – the title being taken from the macho Salvador Dalí's ...
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18 February 2015

Michel Houellebecq: La Carte et le territoire | The Map and the Territory (2010)

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Finally, Michel Houellebecq won the Goncourt in 2010, with a book that doesn't contain graphic sex scenes, that doesn't really co...
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2 February 2015

Michel Houellebecq: Plateforme | Platform (2001)

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I read Michel Houellebecq's Extension du domaine de la lutte (bizarrely translated as Whatever ) some years ago, and recently re-rea...
7 January 2015

Charlie Hebdo and Michel Houellebecq

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As the world now knows, the four cartoonists Charb (Stéphane Charbonnier, also the director), Cabu (Jean Cabut), Wolinski (Georges Wolins...
11 December 2014

Michel Houellebecq: Les Particules élémentaires | Atomised (1998)

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In 1994 Michel Houellebecq published his first novel, which was bizarrely translated into English as Whatever . I say 'bizarre' ...
8 November 2010

Michel Houellebecq's La carte et le territoire: Winner of the Prix Goncourt 2010

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No surprise then. After three misses - with Les particules élémentaires (1998), Plateforme (2001) and La possibilité d’une île (2005) - M...