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HATE AND HEDONISM.('Platform')(Book Review)
In 1998, I was one of the judges of the Prix Novembre, in Paris: a prize given, as its name implies, late in the literary season. After the Goncourt had got it wrong, and after stumblebum efforts by other prizes to correct the Goncourt's errors, the Prix Novembre would issue a final, authoritative verdict on the year. It was unusual for a French prize in having a (slowly) rotating jury, foreign judges--Mario Vargas Llosa was also there--and serious money attached: about thirty thousand dollars for the winner.
That year, the major prizes had all failed to honor Michel Houellebecq's "Les Particules Elementaires," and for months le cas Houellebecq had been ...
- Science fiction as historical novel: Michel Houellebecq's Les Particules...
- Magazine article from: Arena Journal Jack, David January 1, 2006 700+ words
...Houellebecq's science fiction novel Les Particules elementaires as both a provocation...Slavoj Zizek describes the utopia of Les Particules elementaires in the following way...reading, preferring instead to grasp Les Particules elementaires as something like a warning...
- UNE « CAPE D'INVISIBILITÉ » POUR LES PARTICULES COLLOÏDALES
- Magazine article from: Textile : Canadian Textile Journal = Revue Canadienne du Textile Anonymous July 1, 2008 700+ words
...mis au point un nouveau paradigme de conception rendant les particules invisibles. Dans un rcent numro du magazine Advanced Materials...adjoint aux dpartements de gnie et de science des matriaux. Les particules collodales sont omniprsentes et servent d'additifs, dans...
- The Cynical Celebrity : Michel Houellebecq's popular art of bitterness.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Johnson, Scott November 1, 1999 700+ words
...publication of his second novel, "Les Particules Elementaires," (Elementary Particles...for peace and a view of the sea. "Les Particules" has been translated into five languages...be unequivocally negative. Both "Les Particules" and "Whatever" are soaked in hopelessness...
- Navigating Non-lieux in contemporary fiction: Houellebecq, Darrieussecq,...
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review O'Beirne, Emer April 1, 2006 700+ words
...but unspoilt (the naturist resort of his earlier Les Particules elementaires), (4) is shared by a number of...catalogue and the Monoprix magazine in Houellebecq's Les Particules elementaires (p. 150). (9) In terms of
- Equivalent granular void ratio for characterization of Singapore's Old Alluvium.
- Magazine article from: Canadian Geotechnical Journal Ni, Qing Dasari, G.R. Tan, T.S. June 1, 2006 700+ words
...le concept d'indice des vides granulaires qui considere les particules de silt et d'argile comme des vides a d'abord ete essaye...cisaillement des particules fines non plastiques de silt et les particules fines plastiques d'argile, et en consequence, on a trouve...
- French lessons; Why is it, asks a London-based novelist who has just spent six...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) Kennedy, Douglas December 23, 2002 700+ words
...the so-called "novel of ideas" of the Michel Houellebecq variety can sell massive amounts in France (Houellebecq's Les Particules ElEmentaires, or Atomised, shifted 300,000 copies), even though many French readers privately complain that their...
- France's literary sensation : Generation war.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) February 13, 1999 700+ words
LES PARTICULES EL@EMENTAIRES. By Michel Houellebecq. Flammarion; 394 pages; FFr105 THIS remarkable bestseller is France's biggest literary...
- What the world is reading.(French books)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) February 13, 1999 700+ words
...German bestseller lists this month, whether fiction or non-fiction, competes for attention with Michel Houellebecq's "Les Particules elementaires", reviewed above. It was the book of the autumn in France, looks like being the book of the winter, and...