It’s perhaps easiest to introduce Michel Houellebecq, the controversial French writer whose new novel The Map and the Territory recently won the prestigious Prix Goncourt, by offering a couple of representative quotations from his previous work. Here is one, taken from his first novel, Whatever: “I don’t like this world. I definitely don’t like it. The society in which (...)
June 01, 2012
Books
Second-rate Nietzsche
The Map and the TerritoryMichel HouellebecqTranslated by Gavin BowdKnopf, $26.95, 288 pp.
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