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The main protagonist of this novel, branded as the emblem for its generation, is an antihero who has given up the fight. He is a thirty-year-old IT engineer who is fed up with his job and bored of his fellow human beings, and thinks...

Year 2027. France is preparing for a presidential election that is very likely to be won by a TV star. The strong man behind this candidacy is the current Economy and Finance Minister, Bruno Juge, for whom Paul Raison, the protagonist of the novel,...

The first three novels by Michel Houellebecq, which launched him into literary stardom and placed him at the center of the polemic. The three are characterized by resentful and lethargic shipwrecked beings of our consumer society. / Las tres primeras novelas de Michel Houellebecq,...

Jed Martin is an artist. His first photographs feature Michelin road maps, and global success arrives with his series on professions: portraits of various personalities, including a writer named Houellebecq. Not long afterward, Jed helps a police inspector solve a heinous crime that leaves...

In the eighties, a twenty-year-old Houellebecq grabs at random a book of aphorisms by Schopenhauer and has a revelation: he discovers in him a soul mate, an alter ego of the past, a teacher. That fateful day ended up leading to this book, a...

Best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq pays tribute to the master of horror, H. P. LovecraftPart biographical sketch, part pronouncement on existence and literature, the best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq's H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, was published in France in 1991 and is...

This is a fierce and satirical look at the present day through the eyes of two stepbrothers in their forties. Michel is a biology researcher who lives like a monk, having renounced sex, and spends most of his spare time browsing the supermarket. Bruno...

More than half of the texts in this book (letters, interviews or articles) were translated into Spanish for the first time in 2011, and were published in this same collection under the title Interventions. The present edition, with the incorporation of the new texts,...

Michel is a civil-servant at the Ministry of Culture. When his father is murdered, Michel takes a leave of absence to go on a package tour to Thailand. Infuriated by the shallow hypocrisy and mediocrity of his fellow travellers, only the awkward Valerie attracts...

Florent-Claude Labrouste is forty-six years old, he hates his name and he takes Captorix, an antidepressant that releases serotonin and that has three adverse effects: nausea, disappearance of libido and impotence. His journey starts in Almería – where he meets two girls at a...

Florent-Claude Labrouste is forty-six years old, he hates his name and he takes Captorix, an antidepressant that releases serotonin and that has three adverse effects: nausea, disappearance of libido and impotence. His journey starts in Almería – where he meets two girls at a...

Paris, 2022. François 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 François's own decadence is considerably smaller in scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, reads the classics....

Between the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, Michel Houellebecq became the center of two controversies. On the one hand, the philosopher Michel Onfray did an interview with him: in it the author expressed opinions about the Islamization of Europe and the...