Re: antw. light summer reading

Well, you could try, but i'm afraid it's not worth it. This guy has no 
style except he chooses the ugly (in his language as in his plots). I only 
read his first novel (Extension du domaine de la lutte), but the struggle 
(lutte) really should turn to be against him, not against what he thinks 
our contemporean values are. Because his struggle against them is 
desperate, coward and insane. In this first novel, he tells about consumer 
society in sex affairs. Some people have a great capital, lovers and so on, 
some other don't. So why not try to give someone the pleasures they are 
frustrated of, even by violent ways, by pushing them to rape and murder? 
This is what he writes about (should i say write?). Of course his ideas are 
a critic against Sexual liberation or so. But he first wants to attract 
readers by horrible stories about sex. His last novel: a trip to Thailand 
with childrenfuckers, in which the hero meets the woman he'll love. I only 
heard about it, and not much because 09/11 came just after this book was 
published... Many people found it attractive just because of these young 
protitutes. It must be rubbish. I won't try. I must read GR or Vineland 
before!
Bye-bye.
Clément

lorentzen-nicklaus à dit à Òantw. light summer readingÓ.
[2002/06/26 12:07:43]

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> * try --- michel houellebecq: les particules élémentaires [1998]
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>  (dtsch. elementarteilchen. münchen 2001: list taschenbuch)
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> it's straight, funny, and full of valid observations on contemporary 
> continental 
> life. one pynchonesque thing about it is the use of natural-scientific 
> key 
> metaphors. best french writer since céline ... kfl ***
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