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     • Michel Houellebecq (born February 26, 1956 or 1958, Réunion, France) is a French writer, satirist, and provocateur whose work exposes his sometimes darkly humorous, often offensive, and thoroughly misanthropic view of humanity and the world. He is one of the best-known, if not always best-loved, French novelists of the early 21st century.
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   Who is Michel Houellebecq?

   • Michel Houellebecq (born February 26, 1956 or 1958, Réunion, France) is a French writer, satirist, and provocateur whose work exposes his sometimes darkly humorous, often offensive, and thoroughly misanthropic view of humanity and the world. He is one of the best-known, if not always best-loved, French novelists of the early 21st century.

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   Why is Houellebecq so popular?

   • One explanation for Houellebecq’s enduring popularity is that although he writes about 21st-century issues, he does so more like a 19th-century writer, creating, in the mode of Honoré de Balzac or Émile Zola, a complete world in which you can immerse yourself. A néantir is 736 pages long, and so there is indeed much to be immersed in.

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   When did Houellebecq become famous?

   • Houellebecq gained his first real international attention only four years later with the publication of Les Particules élémentaires (1998; filmed 2006), published as Atomised in the United Kingdom and as The Elementary Particles in the United States. In it he presented two half brothers who were abandoned by their parents in childhood.

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   Is Houellebecq a good writer?

   • It is fair to say, therefore, that Houellebecq’s reputation and standing are based less on his work’s literary qualities — critics often complain that his sedulously unadorned prose is “flat” and uninspiring — than on his powers as a social critic or diagnostician.

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   Was Houellebecq a 'contemporary capital'?

   • A writer named André Rouveyre said that André Gide was, in his time, the ‘ contemporain capital ’ — the central contemporary. One can certainly say that about Houellebecq. In France, his following is huge, perhaps unprecedented.”

   Why France’s Most Controversial Novelist Is Also Its Most Celebrated

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   Does Houellebecq have a complicated interior life?

   • Houellebecq has also seemed incapable of imagining a complicated interior life for his female characters or for women. In our conversation, we touched on sex work and porn. His sense — hardly original — was that sex work serves a useful economic purpose and provides a meaningful service.

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   Michel Houellebecq (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl wɛlbɛk]; born Michel Thomas on 26 February 1956) 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.

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5. www.ft.com › content › 73338e2e-331a-4be3-88d4-a0d9eMichel Houellebecq: ‘People who have humanitarian ideas are a ...

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   Sep 13, 2024 · France’s most famous and controversial writer on Trump, Ukraine and what he believes lies behind the rise of the far right

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   Oct 8, 2024 · Oct. 8, 2024. Michel Houellebecq — arguably the most important French writer of the past quarter-century — was perched on the seat of his chair like a bird. We were sitting in his dim Paris ...

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   Sep 19, 2024 · The dialogue in The Map and the Territory between the fictional Michel Houellebecq and William Morris is very radical today. There is a new attitude towards craftsmanship and the value of work that we are trying to find today.

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   Jan 19, 2022 · Houellebecq, once a man of the left, has acquired the rare and unusual position of being a writer who has not only a deep understanding of the complexity of France in the early 21st century, but a direct impact on political life in the country. What he says matters.

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   Jan 28, 2022 · The novels with which he made his name in the late 1990s — first in France and then around the world (Houellebecq is routinely celebrated at home for being the French author most widely read ...