An author is above all a human being ... and whether he writes very well or very badly hardly matters as long as he gets the books written and is, indeed, present in them.
Houellebecq's fiction is brainier, trickier and more stimulating than his polarizing reputation suggests, cutting to the heart of things in a way that makes most of his American counterparts look like well-schooled functionaries doodling prettily on the margins of life.
A sense of doom looms over his new novel, Annihilation, which, although far from his best, is a fascinating book tinged by mortality.
In Annihilation, Houellebecq explores middle-class family life and the healing power of love through his de-centered male hero, Paul Raison.
Collection
[
|
...
]