Whatever

European Literature

Author: Michel Houellebecq

“Houellebecq captures precisely the cynical disillusionment of disaffected youth.”—Booklist,,”This boy needs serious therapy. He may be beyond help.”—The Washington Post,,Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny, and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal st….Read More

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The Possibility of an Island

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Journey to the End of the Night

Told in the first person and based on his own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa and in America, where he worked for while at the… Continue Reading Posted in: 1900, Fiction In French, French Fiction, Texts (Including Translations)

Atomised

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Platform

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