Michel Houellebecq
French ยท b. 1956
Michel Houellebecq is a French novelist, poet, and filmmaker whose work explores alienation, sexuality, consumerism, and the decline of Western society. His novels include Whatever, Atomised (also published as The Elementary Particles), Platform, The Possibility of an Island, The Map and the Territory (Prix Goncourt 2010), and Submission. A consistent provocateur on Islam, gender politics, and late capitalism, Houellebecq is often read as the leading literary diagnostician of post-1968 European malaise.
Books
- Atomised (1998)
- The Map and the Territory (2010)
Episodes
- 61. Atomised, part 2: Sympathy for the Incel
- 60. Was the sexual revolution a mistake? (Houellebecq's Atomised, part 1)
- 58. Moby Dick finale: Ahab Derangement Syndrome
- 55. Moby Dick, part 1: My name is Ishmael and my special interest is whales
- 39. Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed: Real anarchy has never been tried
- 8. Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, part 3: We finally get to the fucking lighthouse
- 3. Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 3: The world is weary of me and I am weary of it
- 2. Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 2: Post-industrial society and its discontents
- 1. Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 1: Memeing big fat juicy asses into reality