Whatever (Serpent's Tail Classics) - Softcover

Houellebecq Won Prix Goncourt In 2010 For The Map And The Territory, Michel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846687845 ISBN 13: 9781846687846

Verlag: Serpent's Tail, 2011

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Book by Houellebecq Michel

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Críticas:

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)

Reseña del editor:

Just thirty, with a well-paid job, no love life and a terrible attitude, the anti-hero of this grim, funny novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until he's packed off with a colleague - the sexually-frustrated Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system

Houellebecq's first novel was a smash hit in France, expressing the misanthropic voice of a generation. Like A Confederacy of Dunces, Houellebecq's bitter, sarcastic and exasperated narrator vociferously expresses his frustration and disgust with the world.

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• Verlag: Serpent's Tail
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1846687845
• ISBN 13: 9781846687846
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160