Map Quest: Sex Gives Way to Self-Reflexivity in Michel Houellebecq’s New Novel (thepoliticker.observer)
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The name of the novelist Michel Houellebecq, with its little landslide of
vowels, is less known in the United States than it is in France, his country
of birth. But there, Mr. Houellebecq is a brand. Or at least he is an act. “I
am about as ill-adapted as it is possible to be for a public role,” Mr.
Houellebecq has written, and so, of course, he is a vivid public figure. Known
for his attested habit of abruptly coming on to his female interviewers, he is
also an epic smoker, an espouser of Sarkozy and a recluse. His surliness is a
matter of public record. In 2002, Mr. Houellebecq was sued, and subsequently
acquitted, for incitement of religious hatred, after calling Islam “the
stupidest religion” in an interview. His mother wrote a whole book maligning
him. The book is called _L’Innocente_. “It’s pretty scary that the old cow
found a publisher,” the son responded in a book of his own.
Mr. Houellebecq’s first novel, _Whatever_ (1994), followed several months in
the life of an agricultural computer programmer. Little happens. Perhaps four
things almost happen. (“Anything can happen in life,” Mr. Houellebecq …
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