Right or left? Islamophobic? Right-wing anarchist? Declinist? Reactionary or provocative? All these answers? With hindsight, it is not easy to bottle Michel Houellebecq and put a label on it. Like a wink and an extension of the Houellebecq economist by Bernard Maris, Christian Authier wanted, with this Political Houellebecq, examine the political thought of this “contemporary capital” of French letters. Since Extension of the field of struggle (1994) until Annihilate (2022), his work has echoed important themes that have occupied the political, ideological and cultural space of recent decades: liberal globalization, the legacy of May 68, the weight of Islam and the decline of the West. . Seismographer of French society and the West, visionary or prophet, loved or hated, the novelist – sometimes also anthropologist and pamphleteer – skilfully plays with the contradictions and anxieties of French society and the West. An enlightening exercise that makes the texts speak.
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