Re: the aesthetics of ugliness was: antw. light summer reading

Clement, I have not read Huellebecq but was considering to do so soon. 

Is your assessment entirely personal, on an intimate dislike for forced ugliness--perhaps you do not approve of the writings of de Sade, Lautreamont, Genet, Artaud or Bataille for the same reasons--but giveen my taste for such writers, could I find Huellebecq attractive? 

Is the ugliness gratuitious, or is it aimed at something?
A taste of things to come, comme ils dissent. 

Salut, cher.
Monica


--- Clément Levy <[email protected]> wrote:
>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]
>
>> 
>> 
>> * try --- michel houellebecq: les particules élémentaires [1998]
>> 
>>  (dtsch. elementarteilchen. münchen 2001: list taschenbuch)
>> 
>> 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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