The murderer is the brother of his young lover Aicha. Michel now begins to confront the latent desperation that he carries within him. Beyond questions of plot construction and literary technique, Platform is a scathing and sincere look at the architecture of meaninglessness in the modern world. To his credit, when Houellebecq contrasts reality in first world countries with their third-world counterparts he does not . Platform is, as Anita Brookner has written, “a brilliant novel, casting a prescient eye on the abuses and inequalities that lead to wider trouble.” Platform, Michel Houellebecq’s third novel, is to my mind his finest achievement (though critics and sales figures favour Atomised). "Platform would be a better novel if its central character had a life -- any life -- of his own. () Mr. Mr. Houellebecq's chic petulance and abundant salaciousness become part and parcel of his bltadwin.ru: Michel Houellebecq.
Learn more about Michel Houellebecq. Browse Michel Houellebecq's best-selling audiobooks and newest titles. Discover more authors you'll love listening to on Audible. Michel Houellebecq (French: [miˈʃɛl wɛlˈbɛk]; born Michel Thomas; 26 February or ) is a French author, known for his novels, poems and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker and singer.. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. bltadwin.ruebecq published his first novel, Whatever, in His next novel, Atomised, published in Platform: A Novel. Platform.: Michel Houellebecq. Knopf, - Fiction - pages. 14 Reviews. Michel Renault is a human void. Following the death of the father he barely knew, he endures his civil ser-. vice job while eking out an existence of prepackaged pleasure, hollow friendships, TV dinners, and pornography.
But Platform does not contain an "idea" to keep a mayfly awake at night, and Houellebecq is no more a novelist of ideas than Benny Hill. At best, Platform might reinforce Michel Houellebecq's position as the talismanic idiot-savant of the emasculated literary right. Platform, Michel Houellebecq’s third novel, is to my mind his finest achievement (though critics and sales figures favour Atomised). To my mind, the pared down narrative setting, the ferocity of the satire make this the work in which he most clearly and hilariously savages the folly of the twentieth century and presages the terrorist attack in Bali (which passage, weirdly, I translated while. Platform by Michel Houellebecq Vintage, pages, $11 Of all the modern writers out there to attempt to inherit the spirit of the past, only Michel Houellebecq and a handful of others have a.
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