Interventions 2020

ISBN-13: 9781509549955 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 314 str.

Michel Houellebecq

Recenzje

'The most famous French novelist of his generation.'The New Yorker'An author who captures the times like no other.'Evening Standard'Fascinating'Euro News'The author has a rare power: the ability to predict at least the general form of the future.'Foreign Policy"these essays are a good place to get acquainted with that voice, acidic, pitiless, but too full of humor and awareness to shy from"The Local Voice"boasts an array of subjects of great depth and provocation."Washington Examiner

Spis treści

1. Jacques Prévert is a jerk2. The Mirage by Jean-Claude Guiguet3. Approaches to distress4. Staring into the distance: in praise of silent cinema5. Interview with Jean-Yves Jouannais and Christophe Duchâtel6. Art as peeling7. Creative absurdity8. The party9. Time out10. Opera bianca11. Letter to Lakis Proguidis12. The question of paedophilia13. Humanity, the second stage14. Empty heavens15. I have a dream16. Neil Young17. Interview with Christian Authier18. I don't love myself19. Sky, earth, sun20. Leaving the twentieth century21. Philippe Muray in 200222. Towards a semi-rehabilitation of the hick23. Conservatism, a source of progress24. Prolegomena to positivism25. I'm normal. A normal writer26. I have read my whole life long27. Soil cutting28. The lost text29. Interview with Frédéric Beigbeder30. A remedy for the exhaustion of being31. Interview with Marin De Viry and Valérie Toranian32. Interview with Agathe Novak-Lechevalier33. Emmanuel Carrère and the problem of goodness34. Donald Trump is a good president35. Conversation with Geoffroy Lejeune36. A bit worse. A response to a few friends37. The Vincent Lambert affair should not have taken place

O autorze

Michel Houellebecq is a French writer, poet and essayist. His many bestselling books include Platform, The Possibility of an Island, Submission and Serotonin. He won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2010 and, in 2019, he was awarded the Légion d'honneur, France's highest order of merit.