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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 …

As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing …

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020 A powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our ageFlorent-Claude Labrouste is …

A Daily Express Best Book of the Year'An extended meditation on human frailty and the lack of spirituality in the Western world . . . Houellebecq displays compassion and empathy, …

Both are symptomatic members of our atomised society, where religion has given way to shallow 'new age' philosophies and love to meaningless sexual connections.

From the author of cult favourite Atomised'Reading Houellebecq is like being caught up in a tropical storm: you are blown away by the ferocity of his imagination' ObserverMichel is …

I Serotonin møter den typiske houellebecqianske hovedpersonen som er alene, depressiv, hjemsøkt av sin fortid, i eksistensiell bevegelse mot et bakteppe av et samfunn i krise. …

Den tyske filosofen Schopenhauer har haft ett stort inflytande på Michel Houellebecqs författarskap. I essän I Schopenhauers närvaro kommenterar han ett trettiotal utdrag ur …

Pour la première fois dans ma vie je me sentis traité, absolument, comme l'objet d'un documentaire animalier ; il m'est difficile d'oublier ce moment.

Konstnären Jed Martin är en typisk Houellebecq-gestalt i yngre medelåldern: alienerad och tämligen ointresserad av sitt eget liv. Han når stora framgångar, först med en utställning …