TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morrey, Douglas
AB  - 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 successive media scandals in France. His novels narrate a metaphysical mutation or paradigm shift through which humanity as we know it ceases to be the over-riding value or focus of our world when it comes into conflict with a competitor in the form of a post-human or neo-human species. It is the aim of this book to appraise the global significance of Houellebecq’s novelistic visions while at the same time situating them within the context of French literature, culture and society.
DO  - 10.2307/j.ctt5vjgbv
ID  - OAPEN ID: 626371
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 863822193
KW  - Languages
KW  - French
KW  - Human sexuality
KW  - Michel Houellebecq
KW  - Platform (novel)
KW  - The Map and the Territory
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/18c35c31-f991-461e-bee5-5b999e0b2a94/626371.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31649
PB  - Liverpool University Press
PP  - Liverpool
PY  - 2013-03-19
SN  - 9781781387665
TI  - Michel Houellebecq : Humanity and its Aftermath
ER  - 
