Whatever: A Novel [Lingua inglese] - Brossura

Houellebecq, Michel

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ISBN 10: 1846687845 ISBN 13: 9781846687846

Casa editrice: Serpent's Tail, 2011

Riassunto

"Houellebecq captures precisely the cynical disillusionment of disaffected youth."—Booklist

"This boy needs serious therapy. He may be beyond help."—The Washington Post

Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny, and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time.

A painfully realistic portrayal of the vanishing freedom of a world governed by science and by the empty rituals of daily life.

Michel Houellebecq is a multi-award-winning French author. He currently lives in Spain.

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Recensione:

Funny, terrifying and nauseating (Independent)

The balance between philosophy and narrative detail is perfectly judged; the book slips down easily like a bad oyster. As is the nature of such things, it is grimly comic (Nicholas Lezard Guardian)

Le grand fromage du jour (The Face)

It could well turn out to be a cult here too ... astonishing (Time Out)

Snappy, bite-sized, and often very funny. Is it European exhaustion? Is it the soul of man under late capitalism? Millenial gloom? Post-Christian despair? Is it the death of love? Whatever. But Houellebecq describes it perfectly (Literary Review)

This boy needs serious therapy. He may be beyond help (Washington Post)

The mischief-making enfant terrible of new-wave French fiction (Independent)

Houellebecq captures precisely the cynical disillusionment of disaffected youth (Booklist)

Descrizione del libro:

'The mischief-making enfant terrible of new-wave French fiction' Independent

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Serpent's Tail
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1846687845
• ISBN 13: 9781846687846
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160