Houellebecq
If you're a reader of Michel Houellebecq's work, this London Review of Books article -- reviewing his latest novel and a biography of him -- is pretty much essential.
Amazon lists a May 26, 2006 release date stateside for said novel, for what it's worth.
His observations, bracing at first, seem specious and grating when repeated, in almost identical form, in novel after novel. It's frequently obvious that he is simply dressing up his personal obsessions as something more significant, or cannily repackaging popular prejudices as grand philosophical positions. On the evidence of The Possibility of an Island, his latest novel, he would be the first to admit all this.
Amazon lists a May 26, 2006 release date stateside for said novel, for what it's worth.
posted by Tobias at 8:54 AM
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Speaking of which, did any of you hear of the "prank" pulled on him this last year? Yeah, so, Houellbecq is like the Britney Spears of the Parisian literary world: the press love him, they hate him. Whichever, he's a star. His publicist, upon the eve of this latest release, purposely left certain critics and newspapers off the galley distribution list. In retribution, they did the following:
http://esposito.typepad.com/con_read/2005/09/french_critics_.html
Sorry...I thought I'd share.
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