AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
The strange case of Michel Houellebecq. (Literature).
IF EVER A CASE exemplified the clash between modern realities and modern pieties in France, it is that of Michel Houellebecq, whose succes de scandale novels have earned him immense notoriety, immense sales, and immense ire. Most recently, his success has made him the centrepiece of an extraordinary court battle, which pitted soixante-huitard politico-cultural orthodoxies, in alliance with Islamic organisations, against secularism and free speech. But there's even more to it than that, and so the strange case of Michel Houellebecq deserves a closer look.
Houellebecq (pronounced wellbeck, as English-language publications hasten to reassure their readers) has been ...
- Sans Marx, Jesus or Darwin; Michel Houellebecq dissects our consumer paradise...
- Magazine article from: The Report Newsmagazine Grace, Kevin Michael November 18, 2002 700+ words
PLATFORM by Michel Houellebecq Translated by Frank Wynne Heinemann...99 THE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES by Michel Houellebecq Translated by Frank Wynne Vintage...softcover; $20 WHATEVER by Michel Houellebecq Translated by Paul Hammond Serpent...
- Michel houellebecq: French novelist for our times.
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Karwowski, Michael July 1, 2003 700+ words
...controversial French writer Michel Houellebecq has probably initiated more...So what are we to make of Michel Houellebecq, aside from his massive media...sometimes appear in interviews, Houellebecq's work is both profound and...
- Michel Houellebecq. La Possibilite d'une ile.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today King, Adele September 1, 2006 700+ words
Michel Houellebecq. La Possibilite d'une ile. Paris...IMPORTANCE in French literary circles, Michel Houellebecq has been compared, by others and...is possible. Those who regard Michel Houellebecq as merely cynical ignore the humanistic...
- Michel Houellebecq: El chico malo de las letras.(El Angel)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) November 20, 2005 700+ words
...traducido a decenas de lenguas, Michel Houellebecq, acusado de racismo, misoginia...pertenece al personaje que Houellebecq viene componiendo desde siempre...desde sus primeros poemas, Michel Houellebecq encontr un tono: una mezcla...
- Love in the time of hedonism: Michel Houellebecq's new novel.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine Nehring, Cristina August 1, 2003 700+ words
...this essay: Platform, by Michel Houellebecq. Translated by Frank Wynne...city of Paris and the other to Michel Houellebecq. Although appreciably smaller...approximately five inches), Houellebecq's commands indisputably more...
- The Cynical Celebrity : Michel Houellebecq's popular art of bitterness.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Johnson, Scott November 1, 1999 700+ words
...middle-aged writer named Michel Houellebecq gave his first Parisian performance...a four-piece orchestra, Houellebecq sang for nearly an hour, and...fan club called Friends of Michel Houellebecq, only the second such association...
- Michel Houellebecq. H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life.(Book...
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction VanderMeer, Jeff September 22, 2005 700+ words
Michel Houellebecq. H. P. Lovecraft: Against the...his Jewish wife.) In general, Michel Houellebecq's approach to Lovecraft is to play...adolescent, I did come away from Houellebecq's essay with a renewed appreciation...
- Michel Houellebecq. The Possibility of an Island.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Hove, Thomas March 22, 2007 700+ words
Michel Houellebecq. The Possibility of an Island. Trans. Gavin Bowd. Knopf, 2006...its acclaimed predecessor The Elementary Particles (1998), Michel Houellebecq's latest novel projects an evolutionary future in which homo sapiens...