This piece reminded me why I loved Houellebecq's ATOMISED, which I read 20 years ago. The review is insightful and written with style. Describing the character Bruno, Marigold writes: "As soon as his nuts drop they grab the wheel." That's a great line.
Good one. I never read Particles... but I did read Platform, The Map and the Territory, and Submission, which blew me away, because it is, if you follow the news of what's happening in France, very likely prophetic, sad to say. I reviewed some of Houellebecq on my Sutstack, BTW, which maybe five people read.
Serotonin is next in my queue for after I re-read Hermann Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund. By the way, Hesse was writing a hundred years ago, before the coming of the 'great world wars, I and II. I read him in high school, I believe he was on our summer reading list--yes, imagine, we were given a list of books to read over our summer vacations. Isn't that astounding, given where our modern schools are now? Hesse's work is infused with this premonition of coming catastrophe, some say. It was also about the deeper meaning to life and struggles, dreams, desires, love, honor, things which count for nothing, it sometimes seems today.
And at some point, I will get to Annihilation. I have a fat beautiful hardback on my shelves.
Yeah, I was astounded when I stumbled on Houellebecq. When you read his novels, you realize that since the early part of the century, American literary fiction has been scrubbed of all worth and replaced with manufactured tomes of empty violence and feminist porn and man-hate. IMO.
Houellebecq wrote a great essay on the influence of Schopenhauer on his work on. You must read!
Thank you, will check it out
This piece reminded me why I loved Houellebecq's ATOMISED, which I read 20 years ago. The review is insightful and written with style. Describing the character Bruno, Marigold writes: "As soon as his nuts drop they grab the wheel." That's a great line.
Good one. I never read Particles... but I did read Platform, The Map and the Territory, and Submission, which blew me away, because it is, if you follow the news of what's happening in France, very likely prophetic, sad to say. I reviewed some of Houellebecq on my Sutstack, BTW, which maybe five people read.
Serotonin is next in my queue for after I re-read Hermann Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund. By the way, Hesse was writing a hundred years ago, before the coming of the 'great world wars, I and II. I read him in high school, I believe he was on our summer reading list--yes, imagine, we were given a list of books to read over our summer vacations. Isn't that astounding, given where our modern schools are now? Hesse's work is infused with this premonition of coming catastrophe, some say. It was also about the deeper meaning to life and struggles, dreams, desires, love, honor, things which count for nothing, it sometimes seems today.
And at some point, I will get to Annihilation. I have a fat beautiful hardback on my shelves.
Yeah, I was astounded when I stumbled on Houellebecq. When you read his novels, you realize that since the early part of the century, American literary fiction has been scrubbed of all worth and replaced with manufactured tomes of empty violence and feminist porn and man-hate. IMO.
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