Michel Houellebecq Boeken

Een wereldvreemde ambtenaar ontdekt in de warmbloedige relatie met zijn vriendin de mogelijkheden om in Thailand seksualiteit en commercie te verenigen.

Een twaalfjarige jongeman klimt in de bergen in een elektriciteitsmast, helemaal tot op het platform. De gapende leegte onder zijn voeten oefent een vreemde aantrekkingskracht op hem uit: zal hij springen? Dertig jaar later moet hij terugdenken aan dat moment. Hij heeft de liefde van zijn leven gevonden en zijn eigen economische waarde opgeschroefd door een briljant idee voor een nieuwe vorm van toerisme te lanceren, maar hoe stabiel is geluk? In ieder geval kunnen we er geen recht op doen gelden, zoveel is zeker. Met Platform voegt Michel Houellebecq een omstreden meesterwerk aan zijn explosieve oeuvre toe. Opnieuw houdt hij de moderne westerse mens een spiegel voor - een lachspiegel, welteverstaan, volgens het procédé van Elementair deeltjes: het uitvergroten van bepaalde details die we normaal gesproken liever niet zien, en het tot hun uiterste consequentie doortrekken van de principes die ten grondslag liggen aan onze wereld van markt en strijd. Een wrang-komische roman over liefde en seks, aanbod en vraag, reizen en roerloosheid.

In 2008 Houellebecq and Levy, two of France's most celebrated intellectuals, began a ferocious exchange of letters, resulting in this book. In their inimitably witty, fascinating, and confrontational correspondence they lock horns on everything, including literature, sex, politics, family, fame, and even themselves."

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 uniquely dark worldview. But even as he outlines Lovecraft’s rejection of this loathsome world, it is Houellebecq’s adulation for the author that drives this work and makes it a love song, infusing the writing with an energy and passion not seen in Houellebecq’s other novels to date.

From the notorious, bestselling author of ATOMISED: a scholarly love letter on the hugely influential and reclusive literary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft 'Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.' In this prescient work, now with an introduction by Stephen King, Michel Houellebecq, the controversial and bestselling author of ATOMISED, focuses his considerable analytical skills on H.P. Lovecraft - one of the seminal horror writers 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 uniquely dark worldview. But even as he outlines Lovecraft's rejection of this loathsome world, it is Houellebecq's adulation for the author that drives this work and makes it a love song, infusing the writing with an energy and passion that characterises Houellebecq's new novel. This is indispensable reading for anyone interested in Lovecraft, Houellebecq, or the past and future of horror.

Traces the experiences of artist Jed Martin, who rises to international success as a portrait photographer before helping to solve a heinous crime that has lasting repercussions for his loved ones.

In "Annihilation," set in a deteriorating France in 2027, Paul Raison navigates a tense political landscape amid cyberattacks while grappling with family dynamics following his father's stroke. Michel Houellebecq infuses his narrative with newfound compassion, blending rage and tenderness in this thought-provoking novel.

Who, among you, deserves eternal life? Daniel is a highly successful stand-up comedian who has made a career out of playing outrageously on the prejudices of his public. But at the beginning of the twenty-first century, he has begun to detest laughter in particular and mankind in general. Despite this, Daniel is unable to stop himself believing in the possibility of love. A thousand years on, war, drought and earthquakes have decimated the earth and Daniel24 lives alone in a secure compound - his only companion, a cloned dog named Fox. Outside, the remnants of the human race roam in packs, while Daniel24 attempts to decipher his predecessor's history. In a nightmarish vision of the implosion of the modern world, he, like his predecessor attempts to fathom the meaning of love, sex, suffering and regret.

It’s 2022. Francois is bored. He’s a middle-aged lecturer at the Sorbonne and an expert on J.K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century Decadent author. But Francois’s own decadence is considerably smaller in scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, rereads Huysmans, watches YouPorn. Meanwhile, it’s election season. And although Francois feels “about as political as a bath towel,” things are getting pretty interesting. In an alliance with the Socialists, France’s new Islamic party sweeps to power. Islamic law comes into force. Women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged, and Francois is offered an irresistible academic advancement—on condition that he convert to Islam. Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker has said of Submission that Michael Houellebecq is “not merely a satirist but—more unusually—a sincere satirist, genuinely saddened by the absurdities of history and the madnesses of mankind.” Houellebecq’s new book may be satirical and melancholic, but it is also hilarious, a comic masterpiece by one of France’s great novelists.