Loser Canon
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Author
Born 26 février 1956
Also known as M. Houellebecq, Michel Thomas
Michel Thomas, dit Michel Houellebecq est un écrivain, poète, essayiste et acteur français né le 26 février 1956 à Saint-Pierre (La Réunion). Il est révélé par les romans Extension du domaine de la lutte (1994) et surtout Les Particules élémentaires (1998), qui le fait connaître d'un large public. Ce dernier roman et son livre suivant Plateforme (2001) sont considérés comme précurseurs dans la littérature française, notamment pour leur description de la misère affective et sexuelle de l'homme occidental dans les années 1990 et 2000. Avec La Carte et le Territoire, Michel Houellebecq reçoit le prix Goncourt en 2010, après avoir été plusieurs fois pressenti pour ce prix. Son œuvre est traduite en plus de 40 langues.
Michel Thomas, known as Michel Houellebecq, is a French writer, poet, essayist, and actor born on February 26, 1956, in Saint-Pierre, Réunion. He rose to prominence with the novels Whatever (Extension du domaine de la lutte, 1994) and especially The Elementary Particles (Les Particules élémentaires, 1998), which brought him to the attention of a wide audience. The latter novel and his subsequent book, Platform (2001), are considered groundbreaking in French literature, particularly for their depiction of the emotional and sexual deprivation of Western man in the 1990s and 2000s. With The Map and the Territory (La Carte et le Territoire), Michel Houellebecq received the Prix Goncourt in 2010, after having been a contender several times. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages.
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Readers in conversation
Public notes, reviews, lists, and conversations around Michel Houellebecq.
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A reader-curated list
I have trouble pretending that Houellebecq’s books haven’t been prophetic. Yes, he’s been vindicated in his understanding that the clashes between liberal modernity and the remaining religious conservative holdouts in the world are here to stay. Just so the W…
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You know, it’s the journalist who’ve given me the reputation for being a drunk; what’s curious is that none of them ever realized that if I was drinking a lot in their presence, it was simply to put up with them. How could you bear to have conversation with a…