Whatever - Brossura

Houellebecq, Michel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1852425849 ISBN 13: 9781852425845

Casa editrice: Serpents Tail, 1999

Riassunto

Ever found yourself all at sea at work? Suffered from information overload?
If you have, Houellebecq's grim, funny and clever tongue-in-cheek exploration of corporate jargon, psychobabble and the ineffectual use of long words is for you.
Just thirty, with a well-paid job and no love-life, our narrator smokes 4 packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories - cows and all - in his spare time. He's tolerably content in his boredom - until he's packed off with the unimaginably ugly Raphael Tisserand to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system.

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Recensione:

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)

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

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)

Funny, terrifying and nauseating (Independent)

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

L'autore:

Michel Houellebecq is co-founder of the influential magazine Perpendiculaire.

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• Editore: Serpents Tail
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1852425849
• ISBN 13: 9781852425845
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 155