Giustapponendo liberamente prosa, versetti e versificazione classica (soprattutto nella forma dell'ottosillabo e dell'alessandrino), la poesia di Michel Houellebecq è, come i suoi romanzi, fortemente radicata nel mondo contemporaneo. Spesso d'altronde Houellebecq si è servito della poesia come matrice per le opere romanzesche.

A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous living literary figure

It's 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century Decadent author. But François's own decadence is considerably smaller in scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, rereads Huysmans, queues up YouPorn.

Meanwhile, it's election season. And although Francois feels "about as political as a bath towel," things are getting pretty interesting. In an alliance with the Socialists, France's new Islamic party sweeps to power. Islamic law comes into force. Women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged, and François is offered an irresistible academic advancement--on the condition that he convert to Islam.

Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker has said of Submission that "Houellebecq is not merely a satirist but--more unusually--asincere satirist, genuinely saddened by the absurdities of history and the madnesses of mankind." Michel Houellebecq's new book may be satirical and melancholic, but it is also hilarious, a comic masterpiece by one of France's great novelists.

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A Parigi, in un indeterminato ma prossimo futuro, vive François, studioso di Huysmans, che ha scelto di dedicarsi alla carriera universitaria. Perso ormai qualsiasi entusiasmo verso l'insegnamento, la sua vita procede diligente, tranquilla e impermeabile ai grandi drammi della storia, infiammata solo da fugaci avventure con alcune studentesse, che hanno sovente la durata di un corso di studi. Ma qualcosa sta cambiando. La Francia è in piena campagna elettorale, le presidenziali vivono il loro momento cruciale. I tradizionali equilibri mutano. Nuove forze entrano in gioco, spaccano il sistema consolidato e lo fanno crollare. E un'implosione improvvisa ma senza scosse, che cresce e si sviluppa come un incubo che travolge anche François. "Sottomissione" è il romanzo più visionario e insieme realista di Michel Houellebecq, capace di trascinare su un terreno ambiguo e sfuggente il lettore che, come il protagonista, François, vedrà il mondo intorno a sé, improvvisamente e inesorabilmente, stravolgersi.

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The most celebrated and controversial French novelist of our time delivers a riveting masterpiece about art and money, love and friendship, and fathers and sons.

Jed Martin is an artist. His first photographs feature Michelin road maps, and global success arrives with his series on professions: portraits of various personalities, including a writer named Houellebecq. Not long afterward, Jed helps a police inspector solve a heinous crime that leaves lasting marks on everyone involved. But after burying his father and growing old himself, Jed also discovers serenity, a deeply moving conclusion to a life of lovers, friends, and family, and filled with hopes, losses, and dreams.

Translated for the first time into English, a dual-text edition of a prize-winning poetry collection from the always controversial novelist

Notorious as a novelist, Michel Houellebecq was first known in France as a poet, and in many ways it is through poetry that he found his novelist's voice. The recipient of the prestigious poetry prize Prix de Flore, this collection of prose and verse pieces investigate issues of alienation, individualism, and disillusionment—themes that will be familiar to Houellebecq readers—while subtly adopting a variety of tones and styles, revealing facets of the author unknown until now in the English-speaking world. Deeply melancholic and despairing at the inhumanity of the present-day world, yet brimming with vitality and invention, these timely, poignant poems clear away the dross of hollow optimism and call for an end to the nightmare of modern existence.

The international publishing sensation is now available in the United States—two brilliant, controversial authors confront each other and their enemies in an unforgettable exchange of letters.
 
In one corner, Bernard-Henri Lévy, creator of the classic Barbarism with a Human Face, dismissed by the media as a wealthy, self-promoting, arrogant do-gooder. In the other, Michel Houellebecq, bestselling author of The Elementary Particles, widely derided as a sex-obsessed racist and misogynist. What began as a secret correspondence between bitter enemies evolved into a remarkable joint personal meditation by France’s premier literary and political live wires.  An instant international bestseller, Public Enemies has now been translated into English for all lovers of superb insights, scandalous opinions, and iconoclastic ideas.

In wicked, wide-ranging, and freewheeling letters, the two self-described “whipping boys” debate whether they crave disgrace or secretly have an insane desire to please. Lévy extols heroism in the face of tyranny; Houellebecq sees himself as one who would “fight little and badly.” Lévy says “life does not ‘live’” unless he can write; Houellebecq bemoans work as leaving him in such “a state of nervous exhaustion that it takes several bottles of alcohol to get out.” There are also touching and intimate exchanges on the existence of God and about their own families.

Dazzling, delightful, and provocative, Public Enemies is a death match between literary lions, remarkable men who find common ground, confident that, in the end (as Lévy puts it), “it is we who will come out on top.”

In un futuro inquietante, dominato da cloni che sembrano aver pagato l'immortalità con la perdita della capacità di ridere, piangere e provare emozioni autentiche, due misteriosi personaggi, Daniel24 e Daniel25, trovano i diari del loro "originale", Daniel1, vissuto ai nostri giorni. La lettura commuoverà molto Daniel25 che conoscerà così la sofferenza, distruggendo il sogno dell'immortalità dei suoi creatori. Provocatorio, ironico, il romanzo di Michel Houellebecq è una riflessione sul senso della vita che viviamo e sulla possibilità di replicarla.

A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus–a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as we know it has vanished.

Surprisingly poignant, philosophically compelling, and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, The Possibility of an Island is at once an indictment, an elegy, and a celebration of everything we have and are at risk of losing. It is a masterpiece from one of the world's most innovative writers.

Houellebecq's dazzling new novel, which moves between Paris, Andalucia and Lanzarote, is a thought provoking, sometimes shocking, and ultimately moving examination of the modern world, the trials of old age and the death of love.

In 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. But following his father's death he takes a group holiday to Thailand where he meets a travel agent—the shyly compelling Valérie—who begins to bring this half-dead man to life with sex of escalating intensity and audacity. Arcing with dreamlike swiftness from Paris to Pattaya Beach and from sex clubs to a terrorist massacre, Platform is a brilliant, apocalyptic masterpiece by a man who is widely regarded as one of the world's most original and daring writers.

Houellebecq's acclaimed take on the Thai sex trade and human relationships. 22,000 copies sold in hardback (quadruple the hardback sales of }Atomised{, indicating massive growth). National press ads and flyposting to support. "Reading Houellebe

An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence.

Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drugged-out free-love world of the sixties. Bruno, the older, has become a raucously promiscuous hedonist himself, while Michel is an emotionally dead molecular biologist wholly immersed in the solitude of his work. Each is ultimately offered a final chance at genuine love, and what unfolds is a brilliantly caustic and unpredictable tale.

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A controversial and exciting novel which challenges the beliefs and values of contemporary society, while at the same time delivering an entertaining and provocative read. "Sheer brilliance...totally mesmerising, energising, infuriating and mov

Le liriche di Houellebecq inseguono l'inafferrabile, la vita, il sesso, l'amore, la frenesia del lavoro, le luci al neon di metropolitane in corsa e le buste di plastica dei supermercati affollati. Malinconiche nel rievocare il tempo dell'infanzia e dell'amore, spietate nell'affermare che questo tempo non ritornerà: quello che rimane a noi, oggi, è poco più di un cassetto vuoto o di un lembo di moquette consunta. Con una postfazione di Aldo Nove.

Ever found yourself all at sea at work? Suffered from information overload?
If you have, Houellebecq's grim, funny and clever tongue-in-cheek exploration of corporate jargon, psychobabble and the ineffectual use of long words is for you.
Just thirty, with a well-paid job and no love-life, our narrator smokes 4 packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories - cows and all - in his spare time. He's tolerably content in his boredom - until he's packed off with the unimaginably ugly Raphael Tisserand to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system.