Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 207.00
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
21.11.2013
Verlag
Bloomsbury AcademicSeitenzahl
224
Maße (L/B/H)
24/16.1/1.8 cm
Gewicht
529 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8264-2262-0
The work of French writer and poet (and sometime rapper) Michel Houellebecq has been received as nihilistic and pessimistic and has elicited a diversity of critical, cultural and political responses since the publication of his novel Atomised (2000) and the more incendiary work Platform (2001) both of which have their intellectual and thematic sources in the earlier novella Whatever (1998) and the latest work The Possibility of An Island (2005). Critics speak already of 'un monde houellbecquien' (a Houellebecquian world) identifiable by its isolated and abject male characters, sexual despair, insensate consumption and moralistic essayistic asides. Widely acknowledged as the leading figure in a new generation of French writing less interested in language than in ideas, his work can be read as analogous in some ways but divergent in many others to the 'blank fiction' of American writers like Brett Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk. This book traces a set of reoccurring concerns in Houellebecq's work through a series of close textual readings of his four novels to date. Sweeney situates Houellebecq within French literary and philosophical tradition and reads his work alongside comparable American and British writers.
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