Ref. #1688
Michel Houellebecq - Intervenções
20.95€
Literature, religion, faith, art, philosophy, feminism, conservatism, love—in this volume of texts, Michel Houellebecq returns to the themes that have always intrigued him, sharing the points of view that have made him famous: often controversial, almost always provocative, and always thought-provoking.
In a work of fiction, it is impossible to completely separate the writer from the thinker, and it is inevitable to attribute a character’s beliefs or viewpoints to their creator. A remarkable prose writer, Michel Houellebecq is frequently the target of criticism or controversy whenever one of his novels takes a stance or envisions painful possibilities.
In this first book of non-fiction published in Portugal—where we find the writer praising Trump or in intimate conversation with a fellow author, defending moderate conservatism or exalting literature and love—we encounter a more direct Michel Houellebecq, stripped of fiction’s filter, and always compelling. We see a man—who happens to be one of the most significant writers of our time—with an utterly free mind, impossible to define with simplistic labels, a relentless analyst of what he calls the “human community.”