Michel Houellebecq

Les partícules elementals és la segona novel·la de Michel Houellebecq, publicada a França el 1998. De seguida va aconseguir un gran èxit, guanyant l'últim Premi Novembre de França i essent escollida millor novel·la de l'any per la revista Lire. L'obra, dividida en tres parts, es desenvolupa entre el juliol de 1998 i …

Platform is a 2001 novel by controversial French writer Michel Houellebecq. It has received both great praise and great criticism, most notably for the novel's apparent condoning of sex tourism and anti-Muslim feelings. The author was charged for inciting racial and religious hatred after describing Islam as "stupid", …

A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus–a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as we know it has vanished.Surprisingly poignant, philosophically compelling, and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, The …

Ampliació del camp de batalla és la primera novel·la de Michel Houellebecq, publicada a França el 1994. La novel·la explica la història d'un enginyer informàtic solter que oscil·la entre un estat de depressió sense fons i una indiferència i passivitat vers el seu entorn i la societat francesa en general, amb un to …

The most celebrated and controversial French novelist of our time now delivers his magnum opus—about art and money, love and friendship and death, fathers and sons. The Map and the Territory is the story of an artist, Jed Martin, and his family and lovers and friends, the arc of his entire history rendered with …

Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to book a week in the sun. Sensitive to his limited means and dislike of Muslim countries, the travel agent suggests an island full of 21st century hedonism, set in a bizarre lunar landscape - …

In this prescient work, Michel Houellebecq focuses his considerable analytical skills on H. P. Lovecraft, the seminal, enigmatic horror writer of the early 20th century. Houellebecq’s insights into the craft of writing illuminate both Lovecraft and Houellebecq’s own work. The two are kindred spirits, sharing a …