Othering and Selfing: Reading Gender Hierarchies and Social Categories in Michel Houellebecq's Novel Soumission [PDF]
In literature, questions of the self and the other are frequently presented. The identity politics that gained prominence after the attack on the World Trade Center in New York on 11 September 2001 has occupied considerable space in this debate ...
Udasmoro, W. (Wening)
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This article starts from the observation that in La Carte et le territoire and Soumission, Houellebecq thematizes the current state of France more directly than he had done in previous novels. Focussing on La Carte et le territoire as the site where this development begins, the article examines how this novel represents France: not just what vision it ...
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La phobie de la conversion doctrinale dans le romanSoumission de Michel Houellebecq
Dans son roman Soumission qui repose sur la stratégie de l'anticipation, Michel Houellebecq choque les lecteurs pendant la montée des attentats terroristes au début du XXI siècle.
Prof. Ahmed Abed Abbas Al-Jubouri
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Présent rétrospectif et détour post-humain chez Clifford Simak et Michel Houellebecq
This article draws a comparison between City by Clifford Simak and The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq. Both novels demonstrate the same kind of narratological device: our time (1950-2005) is portrayed by a narrating voice from beyond ...
Juliette Feyel
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Houellebecq’s Priapism: The Failure of Sexual Liberation in Michel Houellebecq’s Novels and Essays
"Presenting a vision of a post-industrial neoliberal consumer society obsessed with pleasure and desire, dictating how the individual must desire and enjoy, Houellebecq’s art discloses how Western societies’ instinctual structure entails an alienated, stressed, and frustrated libido.
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Beyond Material Circuits and Formal Imprints: The Global Novel as a Critical Concept
ABSTRACT This article is an introduction to the special issue ‘Critical Responses to the Global‐Novel Debate: Bridging Material Objects and Forms’. It looks critically at the global novel debate and proposes to understand the novelistic interests for representing a global imagination from a different angle.
Neus Rotger, Marta Puxan‐Oliva
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'The Possibility of an Island' by Michel Houellebecq: a review [PDF]
A dog's life (poodles excepted): Michel Houellebecq's misanthropy is all too evident in 'The Possibility of an Island ' says Michael ...
Worton, M
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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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Le « galérien du style » et le « grand jeu » de « l’interviouwe ». Écriture et médiatisation littéraire chez Louis-Ferdinand Céline [PDF]
Au moment où l’entretien radiophonique devient un « genre » alliant médiatisation de l’écrivain et sacralisation des trajectoires, Louis-Ferdinand Céline procède à sa fictionnalisation dans les Entretiens avec le professeur Y.
Lacroix, Michel
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Lovecraft lettore di Houellebecq?
Questo articolo prende in esame il saggio H.P. Lovecraft. Contro il mondo, contro la vita di Michel Houellebecq. Attraverso un confronto con le fonti sullo scrittore statunitense, l’articolo mostra come ci sia stata, da parte di Houellebecq, una ...
Marco Malvestio
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