Widely acknowledged as an important, if highly controversial, figure in contemporary literature, French novelist and poet Michel Houellebecq has elicited diverse critical responses. In this book Carole Sweeney examines his novels as a response to the advance of neoliberalism into all areas of affective human life. This historicizing study argues that le monde houellebecquien is an 'atomised society' of banal quotidian alienation populated by quietly resentful men who are the botched subjects of ...
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Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair
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Sweeney, Carole
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Sprache: Englisch
Bloomsbury Publishing (2013)
Gewicht: 0 g
ISBN-13: 978-1-62356-918-1
Titelnr.: 46633616