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Michel Houellebecq ( French: [miˈʃɛl wɛlˈbɛk]; born Michel Thomas, 26 February 1956 or 1958) [1] [2] is a French author of novels, poems and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.
May 6, 2024 · Michel Houellebecq, French writer, satirist, and provocateur whose work exposes his sometimes darkly humorous, often offensive, and thoroughly misanthropic view of humanity and the world. He was one of the best-known, if not always best-loved, French novelists of the early 21st century.
Jan 11, 2022 · With his latest tome, the literary provocateur Michel Houellebecq completes his writer's quest: to portray a dying white patriarchy. The big surprise comes in the acknowledgments.
Jan 28, 2022 · The sonorous opening paragraph of Michel Houellebecq’s new novel anéantir (“annihilate”), his eighth, immediately places the reader on recognisably Houellebecqian terrain. “On certain ...
Submission (French: Soumission) is a novel by French writer Michel Houellebecq. The French edition of the book was published on 7 January 2015 by Flammarion , with German ( Unterwerfung ) and Italian ( Sottomissione ) translations also published in January.
France’s most famous living writer flipped open his MacBook and the gravelly voice of the punk legend filled the kitchenette, chanting: “It’s nice to be dead.”. Michel Houellebecq was born on the French island of La Réunion, near Madagascar, in 1958.
Michel Houellebecq (born Michel Thomas), born 26 February 1958 (birth certificate) or 1956 on the French island of Réunion, is a controversial and award-winning French novelist.
Mar 11, 2022 · Michel Houellebecq: 'I don't care about death' The world celebrity of contemporary French literature talks with Le Monde des Livres' editor, Jean Birnbaum about his new novel 'Anéantir'.
Mar 11, 2022 · Poetry is a child's game. In mid-November 2021, in a performance at the Rex Club in Paris, Michel Houellebecq embodied this conviction by reading aloud his poems with three young actors.
Feb 12, 2022 · Anéantir. By Michel Houellebecq. Flammarion; 736 pages; €26. N EAR THE start of Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel, “Anéantir”, the protagonist, Paul Raison, finds himself in a hotel bar in Addis...
