Posts Tagged ‘Michel Houellebecq’
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Jeff Howard’s Interpretative Quests In Theory & Pedagogy from the spring issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly.
In These Times wonders how does Laura Bush Sleep At Night?
In an essay for the latest issue of The Quarterly Conversation, Scott Esposito asks What Are Prisons For?
Via The Literature Compass Blog, the European Graduate School is offering some of its lectures on You Tube. I am mostly interested in the ones from , and .
Mother Jones reviews Edwidge Danticat’s newest book.
Recently I have encountered a bunch of Houellebecq reviews. Here they are, in bullet form:
Guardian Unlimited review of Atomised.
Two articles from The Believer written by Sam Lipsyte.
The Complete Review takes on Platform andThe Possibility Of An Island.
Ready Steady Book has a great review of Against The World, Against Life that has me pretty interested in finally checking it out:
But it is more than just one writer’s “scholarly love-letter” to and for another, this book is something much deeper and is as much about its author, if not more, as it is its subject: it is Houellebecq’s own fiery manifesto, a red hot poker thrust into the tender flesh of our literary climate, one young writer’s burning letter of intent displaying a philosophical doctrine of his own making. Everything packed into this rather flimsy book sets out the intentions of his future literary output and now that these titles exist, it is easy to pinpoint the mythical comparisons and theoretical lineage embedded within Houellebecq’s work from Whatever onwards. And for this reason alone it makes for unparalleled bravura and, more importantly, insightful reading not seen since Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus.
My friend Sean also blogged about it recently.
After finally getting around to reading The Possibility Of An Island, I came across, via Conversational Reading, this review in The New Republic by James Wood. I don’t necessarily agree with everything Wood says about the novel, or Houellebecq in general, but it is still a very interesting read nonetheless.
I just finished reading The Possibility Of An Island last night. Honestly, this was my least favorite Houellebecq novel. I really enjoyed the first half of the book, but once all the stuff about cloning took over I became less interested really quickly. It’s still a great book, but not as good as Platform or The Elementary Particles.
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