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90% HATEFUL.(The Possibility of an Island)(Book review)
It is to the credit of the French novelist, poet, and provocateur Michel Houellebecq that, in his new novel, "The Possibility of an Island" (translated from the French by Gavin Bowd; Knopf; $24.95), he so boldly, with considerable energy and erudition, seeks to confront and encompass the fundamentals of the human condition--or, to quote his veiled reference to Andre Malraux, "what a pompous author of the twentieth century had felt fit to call 'the human condition.' " It is to Houellebecq's discredit, or at least to his novel's disadvantage, that his thoroughgoing contempt for, and strident impatience with, humanity in its traditional occupations and sentiments prevents ...
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