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Michel Houellebecq is perhaps the single most successful and controversial of all contemporary novelists writing in French. Houellebecq has become a global publishing phenomenon: his books have been translated worldwide, three film adaptations of his work have been produced, and the author has been the subject of million-euro publishing deals and of ...
Morrey, Douglas,author.
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Mutations de l'ironie dans l'œuvre de Michel Houellebecq
Is Houellebecq a satirist ? Is it really still a question? Each new book release is an occasion for the press to reaffirm this idea. The goal of this article is to show that, in the latest novels of Houellebecq, his use of irony has greatly changed, even
Clément Lemaitre
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Empowering Signs: Writing and e-motions in Michel Houellebecq’s Platform
This article explores the working of the cultural literacy concepts of rhetoricity and textuality in Michel Houellebecq’s third novel Platform through the lens of French philosopher Frederic Lordon’s affect theory, with a view to understanding the way ...
Claire Lozier
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Recenze: Michel Houellebecq: Podvolení. Praha: Odeon, 2015, 248 s.
Karel Černý
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Ce dossier propose un panorama de la réception critique de l’œuvre de Michel Houellebecq notamment dans la critique universitaire. La critique houellebecquienne est balisée, de manière opératoire, en trois périodes et les principaux ouvrages parus depuis le début des années 2000 sont passés en revue.
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«Jouer son propre rôle» : Michel Houellebecq dans L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq
Cet article analyse le rapport ambivalent que Michel Houellebecq entretient avec les médias, à partir du cas exemplaire de <em>L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq</em>. Ce long métrage met en effet en scène cette relation de façon métaphorique&
Matthias de Jonghe
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Michel Houellebecq’s Transmedial Œuvre: Extension of the Realm of Creative Intervention
This article analyses Michel Houellebecq’s use of multimedia in order to reveal how he creates transmedial worlds that cross media thresholds. Through plurimedial combinations, expansive adaptations, and post-textual work, Houellebecq extends the realms ...
Ashley Harris
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Human Cloning and the Myth of Superpower in Houellebecq’s Imaginative World [PDF]
The novelistic work of Michel Houellebecq has dominated the French literary space for several years because of the themes he develops, and which raise lively controversy.
Acif Membourou Adoka
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Interrogations (para)littéraires sur l’art en tant que destruction [PDF]
The Goncourt Prize novel of Michel Houellebecq focuses on the parable of a fictional artist, Jed Martin, whose production ranges from photos of road maps to videos on manufactured products’ degradation, via portraits of people representing jobs.
Marika Piva
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Abstract This article examines David Lodge's novel Deaf Sentence (2008), which focuses on the life of Desmond, a retired professor of linguistics. I argue that this text offers a standpoint through which readers can visualise the global phenomenon of population ageing and address the question of global responsibility. I look at Deaf Sentence within the
Stefano Rossoni
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