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Oct 8, 2024 · 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. One can certainly ...
Sep 13, 2024 · Contemporary elites claim intellectual and moral superiority. The author of Atomised (1998) is France’s most praised — and hated — novelist. His characters break taboos, expressing politically...
Dec 4, 2019 · In borrowing from popular literary genres, Houellebecq, thus, recycles literary conventions, while turning his literary works into commodities (Lozier, 2018: 670), which corresponds to the definition of post-modernity as a bricolage of high and low art elements.
Jan 28, 2022 · And in 2014, the economist Bernard Maris released a book entitled Houellebecq économiste in which he praised the writer as the “deepest analyst of life under contemporary capitalism”.
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Jan 24, 2024 · And, more importantly: is Houellebecq’s detached pessimism still important for understanding modern France, or has the cynical novelist lost his edge?
Feb 7, 2020 · Turning to Houellebecq’s first novel Extension du domaine de la lutte, she examines the portrayal of what she terms ‘la pasteurisation’ of transgression through which the author questions the increasingly ambiguous status of transgression in contemporary art and society.
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Sep 20, 2019 · Houellebecq scourges the post-1960s “illusion of individual freedom, of an open life”. Rampant consumer capitalism simply means that “money went to money and kept company with power”.
