«Un poète mort n\"écrit plus. D\"où l\"importance de rester vivant.» Toute démarche poétique consiste à retrouver et à exalter la souffrance originelle......

La poursuite du bonheur «Je ne jalouse pas ces pompeux imbéciles Qui s\"extasient devant le terrier d\"un lapin Car la nature est laide, ennuyeuse et hostile; Elle n\"a aucun message à transmettre aux......

Michel is a civil-servant at the Ministry of Culture. When his father is murdered, Michel takes leave of absence to go on a package tour to Thailand. Infuriated by the shallow hypocrisy and mediocrity of his fellow travellers, only the awkward Valerie......

Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than in practice, his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated....

If Jed Martin, the main character of this novel, would you tell the story, it would start perhaps you about a boiler breakdown, some 15 December. Or father, known and committed architect, with whom he spent one Christmas many wake....

Apres la mort de son pere, Michel, fonctionnaire quadra-genaire et blase, decide de partir en Thailande pour gouter aux plaisirs exotiques. Il у rencontre Valerie, cadre dans une grande societe de voyages, a qui il soufflera sa theorie sur les vraies motivations des Europeens en quete de sensations fortes....

Extension du domaine de la lutte Voici l\'odyssée désenchantée d\'un informaticien entre deux âges, jouant son rôle en observant les mouvements humains et les banalités qui......

Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to book a week in the sun. Sensitive to his limited means and dislike of Muslim countries, the travel agent suggests an......

In 2008, Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Levy began a ferocious exchange of letters. Public Enemies is the result. In their inimitably witty, inimitably fascinating, inimitably confrontational correspondence, they lock horns on everything, including literature, sex, politics, family, fame and even - naturally - themselves....

Michel, chercheur en biologie rigoureusement deterministe, incapable d\'aimer, gere le declin de sa sexualite en se consacrant au travail, a son Monoprix et aux tranquillisants. Une annee sabbatique donne a ses decouvertes un tour qui bouleversera la face du monde. Bruno, de son cote, s\'acharne en une quete desesperee du plaisir sexuel....

Everything separates us from one another, with the exception of one fundamental point: we\'re both utterly despicable individuals.\' (Houellebecq to BHL) In 2008, two of the most celebrated of French intellectuals Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Levy (\'BHL\') began a ferocious exchange of letters. Public Enemies is the result....

Book DescriptionIn his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years. In his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as little human contact as possible....

\"I do not these pompous fools jealous Who marvel at the burrow of a rabbit For nature is ugly, boring and unfriendly; It has no message to transmitted to humans. \"Mastering the perfect classical form without bothering modes, Michel Houellebecq portrays in his poems a day that is both contemporary and urban....

\"\" You had a good day? I attacked with relaxation. I assumed that you had made the trip to Fuerteventura. - That is right. \"It shook his head in indecision before answering: \"It was so bad, the pits. No interest, really. And now I have done all the excursions offered by the hotel. - You stay a week?...

\"A dead poet no longer writes. Hence the importance of staying alive. \"A poetic approach consisting, however, to find and to exalt suffering original buried deep within each of us, this reasoning is not obvious so easy to follow ... Stay alive....