Michel Houellebecq
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| Title | : | La carte et le territoire |
| Author | : | Michel Houellebecq |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 428 pages |
| Published | : | September 3rd 2010 by Flammarion |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. France. European Literature. French Literature. Novels. Literature |
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Si Jed Martin, le personnage principal de ce roman, devait vous en raconter l’histoire, il commencerait peut-être par vous parler d’une panne de chauffe-eau, un certain 15 décembre. Ou de son père, architecte connu et engagé, avec qui il passa seul de nombreux réveillons de Noël.Il évoquerait certainement Olga, une très jolie Russe rencontrée au début de sa carrière, lors d’une première exposition de son travail photographique à partir de cartes routières Michelin. C’était avant que le succès mondial n’arrive avec la série des « métiers », ces portraits de personnalités de tous milieux (dont l’écrivain Michel Houellebecq), saisis dans l’exercice de leur profession.
Il devrait dire aussi comment il aida le commissaire Jasselin à élucider une atroce affaire criminelle, dont la terrifiante mise en scène marqua durablement les équipes de police.
Sur la fin de sa vie il accédera à une certaine sérénité, et n’émettra plus que des murmures.
L’art, l’argent, l’amour, le rapport au père, la mort, le travail, la France devenue un paradis touristique sont quelques-uns des thèmes de ce roman, résolument classique et ouvertement moderne.
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| Original Title: | La carte et le territoire |
| ISBN: | 2081246333 (ISBN13: 9782081246331) |
| Edition Language: | French URL https://editions.flammarion.com/Catalogue/hors-collection/litterature-francaise/la-carte-et-le-territoire |
| Literary Awards: | Prix Goncourt (2010), BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2013), Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee (2012) |
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It was public knowledge that Houellebecq was a loner with strong misanthropic tendencies: it was rare for him even to say a word to his dog.Martin Amis did it before, in Money, when he introduced himself, 'Martin Amis', as a character in the book. Houellebecq replays the conceit here, with a similar pretension and expanded role for himself. In the spirit of literary self-flagellation, in addition to the epitaph offered above, Houellebecq does horrible things to himself. I would be plot-spoilingIve known several guys in my life who wanted to become artists, and were supported by their parents; not one of them managed to break through. Its curious, you might think that the need to express yourself, to leave a trace in the world, is a powerful force, yet in general thats not enough. What works best, what pushes people most violently to surpass themselves, is still the pure and simple need for money. Jeff Koons has made himself an objet dart.Whenever Jed Martin calls his agent and says I
OK, if I have to be completely blunt, Michel Houellebecq must be the most overrated contemporary author since Amelie Nothomb. The Map and the Territory has received so much publicity in the last year or two, and Ive come across the title in news and write-ups so many times, not to mention enthusiastic comments Ive overheard during social occasions, that it seemed like I am missing out on something big out there. Not only did the book seem to be in the cultural news every other day or something
I think the only two authors currently writing stuff worth reading are Murakami and Houellebecq.The majority of American writers seem to be priviliged white males fixated on whether their character's wife is cheating on them and/or can they get away with cheating on her. And the answer is, nobody cares.I care even less about the nostalgic rubbish British writers can't seem to get enough of (even more white, equally male (technically) and much more priviliged).In this very funny book, Houellebecq
Modernity was perhaps an error, thought Jed for the first time in his life. A purely rhetorical question, that: modernity had ended in Western Europe some time ago.I once tried to get into Houellebecq [1], about 10 years ago, and back then his work seems to have been all about "here's a bunch of sex with various people, oh no this is not fulfilling, we need monogamy, the end". Not that interesting. The Map and the Territory does not fit into that pattern at all, luckily, it's more a character
Just finished the last thirty wonderfully flowing and surprising pages that end with the total domination of vegetation and then went back to the first lines namedropping Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst and said aloud "Ha, what a great book." I love how clearly he writes, with such unexpected analysis/insight, exaggerated generalizations asserted as truth (although toned down in this one -- not as much potentially politically incorrect stuff in general, and certainly not as much sex as the last
It is about loneliness. Not like, my wife left me loneliness (though that is in there), the kind of loneliness that you might experience at death or the old cliche "we are all alone on this blue ball". I guess it is a kind of heavy loneliness. Quite subtle writing and nothing too grandiose, however, probably one of the best living authors I have read in awhile, though Cormac McCarthy is soon to be read; (I have not read many living authors because they are garbage and ironic
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