Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though... Zobraziť viac
Michel is a civil-servant at the Ministry of Culture. When his father is murdered, Michel takes a leave of absence to go on a package tour to Thailand. Infuriated by the shallow hypocrisy and mediocrity of his fellow travellers, only the awkward ... Zobraziť viac
Voici l'odyssée désenchantée d'un informaticien entre deux âges, jouant son rôle en observant les mouvements humains et les banalités qui s'échangent autour des machines a café. L'installation d'un progiciel en province lui permettra d'étendre le champ... Zobraziť viac
Roman d'anticipation autant que de mise en garde. La possibilité d'une île est aussi une réflexion sur la puissance de l'amour. Vite vient l'envie de comparer sa propre lecture a celle des autres. S'il est des livres que l'on a envie de garder pour soi... Zobraziť viac
Michel Houellebecq zählt zu den großen Autoren unserer Gegenwart. Nicht zuletzt seit der über ihn erschienenen Essaysammlung in der berühmten Reihe der Cahiers de l'Herne ist das unbestritten. Seine Bücher stehen stets wochenlang auf den... Zobraziť viac
Der unmoralische Roman eines grossen Moralisten - liefert das literarische Zeitbild der letzten Jahrzehnte des 20. Jahrhunderts.Präzise und sachlich berichtet der Autor vom glücklosen Leben der Halbbrüder Bruno und Michael... Zobraziť viac
In a near-future France, François, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession – the ideas and works of the ... Zobraziť viac
Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to book a week in the sun. Sensitive to his limited means and dislike of Muslim countries, the travel agent suggests ... Zobraziť viac
Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love affair ... Zobraziť viac
As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial ... Zobraziť viac
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, no love life and a terrible attitude, the anti-hero of this grim, funny novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he ... Zobraziť viac
A number one bestseller in France, Germany and Italy, the masterpiece from the acclaimed author of Atomised and Submission. Zobraziť viac
Apres la mort de son pere, Michel, fonctionnaire quadragénaire et blasé, décide de partir en Thailande pour gouter aux plaisirs exotiques. Il y rencontre Valérie, cadre dans une grande société de voyages, a qui il soufflera sa théorie sur les vraies... Zobraziť viac
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE THE MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH BOOK OF THE YEAR ___________________ 'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Albert Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus–a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as ... Zobraziť viac
Florent-Claude Labrouste is dying of sadness. Despised by his girlfriend and on the brink of career failure, his last hope for relief comes in the form of a newly available antidepressant that alters the brain's release ... Zobraziť viac
Au printemps 2022, François Hollande acheve son second mandat. Bien qu'il l'ait gagné cinq ans plus tôt contre Marine Le Pen, il est déconsidéré, honni, détesté, et ne parvient pas a empecher la montée en puissance de la Fraternité musulmane, qui, sous... Zobraziť viac
In 2008, two of the most celebrated of French intellectuals Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Levy ('BHL') began a ferocious exchange of letters. Public Enemies is the result. In their inimitably witty, inimitably fascinating, ... Zobraziť viac
This selection of poems chosen from four collections shines a fresh light on Michel Houellebecq and emphasises the radical singularity of his work. Drawing on similar themes as his novels, Unreconciled is a journey into the depths ... Zobraziť viac
