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     • This year's International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner, Houellebecq, smoking the first of many cigarettes, appears tired, slightly wary and not so much detached as at a remove from everything.
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   What did Michel Houellebecq do?

   • Michel Houellebecq asked me on the second day of our interview. He put down his electric cigarette (it glowed red when he inhaled, producing steam instead of smoke) and rose slowly from his futon couch. “Iggy Pop wrote some songs based on my novel Th...

   The Art of Fiction No. 206 - The Paris Review

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   Does Houellebecq get drunk?

   • The writer who misbehaves and gets drunk is, of course, a cliché, and Houellebecq’s decades of press appearances make consistent note of his tendencies. And yet to be a participant in the grim theater of it arouses a feeling different from disappointment or disgust.

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

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   What did Houellebecq say?

   • Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images Houellebecq had stipulated that we would speak for two hours each day and then go to dinner, and so we went to dinner. As he talked, he would trail off and then sleepily list to the left and, as his head lightly knocked the glass window-door of the restaurant, stir, returning to sit semi-upright, semi-awake.

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

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   Does Houellebecq have health issues?

   • Houellebecq reads it and puts it in his bag without comment. The bottle of red is empty. The remains of the vanilla ice cream have turned into a melancholy soup and, after five hours, the evening is coming to a close. I ask him if he’s happy. “No. I have some health issues that worry me.” Don’t his books bring him solace?

   Michel Houellebecq: ‘People who have humanitarian ideas are a catastr…

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   Does Houellebecq give in to evil?

   • Houellebecq's characters don't give in to the forces of evil but to the temptation of Good. And the most poignant pages of his novel are those in which he manages to bring to life, amid solitude and dereliction, fleeting gestures that make you cry.

   Michel Houellebecq: 'Good literature is made with good intentions'

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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.

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

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   Sep 13, 2024 · I have vivid memories of running back and forth along the train with his interpreter and publisher, desperately seeking an empty compartment so he could defy the smoking ban. He, on the other...

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6. www.nytimes.com › 2024/10/08 › magazineMichel Houellebecq Is Both Lauded and Reviled in France - The ...

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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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   Jun 17, 2016 · He apologises for being late, orders a mid-afternoon bottle of white wine, and lights a cigarette as if France had not banned smoking in restaurants in 2008. Luckily, we are alone in the room. He...

8. www.nytimes.com › 2001/09/10 › magazineMichel Houellebecq: Le Provocateur - The New York Times

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   Sep 10, 2001 · By late afternoon, the room was choked with smoke, and Houellebecq was no longer sober. Through a door, half hidden behind some drapes, was a balcony and directly beyond it the gray...

9. www.lemonde.fr › en › cultureMichel Houellebecq: 'Good literature is made with good ...

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   Mar 11, 2022 · Knees slightly bent, the global star of contemporary French literature takes a drag on his cigarette and suddenly interrupts what he was saying to note, without making an effort to articulate: "I'm...