Alan Beguivin Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition, this Routledge Classics edition offers the English reader the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever.

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.

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."

THE MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH BOOK OF THE YEAR ___________________ 'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York Times Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste begrudgingly works as an engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture, and is in a self-imposed dysfunctional relationship with a younger woman. When he discovers her ongoing infidelity, he decides to abandon his life in Paris and return to the Normandy countryside of his youth. There he contemplates lost loves and past happiness as he struggles to embed himself in a world that no longer holds any joy for him. His only relief comes in the form of a pill - white, oval, small. Captorix is a new brand of anti-depressant, recently released for public consumption, which works by altering the brain's release of serotonin. With social unrest intensifying around him, and his own depression deepening, Florent-Claude turns to this new medication in the hope that he will find something to live for. Written by one of the most provocative and prophetic novelists of his generation, Serotonin is at once a devastating story of solitude, longing and individual suffering, and a powerful criticism of modern life.

Als Jed Martin, de hoofdpersoon van De kaart en het gebied, het verhaal ervan moest navertellen, zou hij misschien beginnen bij een combiketel die het begaf op een koude dag in december. Of bij zijn vader, een bekend, geëngageerd architect, met wie hij tal van eenzame kerstdiners heeft genoten. Hij zou in elk geval melding maken van Olga, een beeldschone Russische die hij aan het begin van zijn carrière heeft ontmoet toen hij voor het eerst zijn fotografische werk op basis van Michelinkaarten exposeerde. Dat was vóór hij wereldwijd succes boekte met zijn 'beroepen'-reeks, waarin hij persoonlijkheden uit alle mogelijke milieus (onder wie de schrijver Michel Houellebecq) portretteerde tijdens de uitoefening van hun vak. Hij zou ook moeten vertellen hoe hij commissaris Jasselin een gruwelijke moordzaak hielp oplossen, waarvan de afschuwelijke details het politiekorps nog lang zouden heugen. Tegen het eind van zijn leven zou hij een zekere sereniteit bereiken en alleen nog gefluister voortbrengen.

A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France’s most famous living literary figure It’s 2022. François is bored. He’s a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famed nineteenth-century novelist associated with the Decadent movement. But François’s own decadence is of considerably smaller scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, and watches YouPorn. Meanwhile, it’s election season, and in an alliance with the Socialists, France’s new Islamic party sweeps to power—and Islamic law is instituted. Women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged, and François is offered an irresistible academic advancement—on the condition that he converts to Islam. A darkly comic masterpiece from one of France’s great writers, Submission by Michel Houellebecq has become an international sensation and one of the most discussed novels of our time.

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

Zedenschets van de tweede helft van de 20e eeuw aan de hand van de levensgeschiedenis van twee halfbroers, de één een vergeestelijkt wetenschapper, de ander een jachtige erotomaan.

Tolkien: Na březích Středozemě je první francouzsky psanou knihou, jež se do hloubky zabývá Tolkienovým nejslavnějším dílem, trilogií Pán prstenů. Jde o svého druhu průkopnickou práci a vůbec první hlubší analýzu Pána prstenů, již nyní dostávají k dispozici i čeští čtenáři. Na pozadí starých mýtů a moderních teorií románu nám Ferré nejprve představuje svět, v němž se odehrávají dobrodružství Froda, Gandalfa, Aragorna, Legolase a dalších románových postav. Zasazuje Pána prstenů do kontextu Tolkienova díla a zabývá se jeho vztahem k žánru fantasy. Ve druhé části knihy se pak věnuje tématu smrti, jejíž zkušenost je podle něj zásadní pro vývoj všech postav Tolkienovy trilogie a koneckonců i pro vyústění boje o Prsten.

A computer programmer feels reasonably satisfied with his life until he is sent with his colleague, the sexually-frustrated Raphael Tisserand, to train provincial civil servants on a new computer system.

French philosopher Henri Bergson produced four major works in his lifetime, the second of which, "Matter and Memory", is a philosophical and complex nineteenth century exploration of human nature and the spirituality of memory. In this work, Bergson investigates the function of the brain, and opposes the idea of memory being of a material nature, lodged within a particular part of the nervous system. He makes a claim early in this essay that Matter and Memory "is frankly dualistic," leading to a careful consideration of the problems in the relation of body and mind. His theories on sense, dualism, pure perception, concept of virtuality and famous image of the memory cone often make Bergson's essay a confusing and challenging existentialist work. However, the years of research and extensive pathological investigations spent in preparation for this and other essays have gained Bergson great distinction as a brilliant, though unjustly neglected, theorist and philosopher.

Ignorance is bliss, or so hopes Antoine, the lead character in Martin Page's stinging satire, How I Became Stupid—a modern day Candide with a Darwin Award like sensibility. A twenty-five-year-old Aramaic scholar, Antoine has had it with being brilliant and deeply self-aware in today's culture. So tortured is he by the depth of his perception and understanding of himself and the world around him that he vows to denounce his intelligence by any means necessary in order to become "stupid" enough to be a happy, functioning member of society. What follows is a dark and hilarious odyssey as Antoine tries everything from alcoholism to stock-trading in order to lighten the burden of his brain on his soul.