Michel Houellebecq - Intervenções

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.”