El mundo como supermercado
1998
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El autor de las más vitriólicas novelas sobre la sociedad contemporánea pasea su feroz mirada sobre algunos fenómenos culturales y sociales del siglo XX: ataca el «repugnante realismo poético» de Prévert; realiza un apasionado elogio del cine mudo; considera la poesía no sólo como otro lenguaje, sino como «otra mirada»; afirma que en el sexo no se busca placer, sino la gratificación narcisista; nos habla de la muerte de Dios como preludio de un increíble folletín metafísico; del arte contemporáneo; de una visita al salón del vídeo hot y de la clonación. Un libro transgresor sobre el mundo como supermercado y como burla.
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Author
Michel Houellebecq
Author · 22 books
Michel Houellebecq (born Michel Thomas), born 26 February 1958 (birth certificate) or 1956 on the French island of Réunion, is a controversial and award-winning French novelist. To admirers he is a writer in the tradition of literary provocation that reaches back to the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire; to detractors he is a peddler, who writes vulgar sleazy literature to shock. His works though, particularly Atomised, have received high praise from the French literary intelligentsia, with generally positive international critical response, Having written poetry and a biography of the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, he brought out his first novel Extension du domaine de la lutte in 1994. Les particules élémentaires followed in 1998 and Plateforme, in 2001. After a disastrous publicity tour for this book, which led to his being taken to court for inciting racial hatred, he went to Ireland to write. He currently resides in France, where he has been described as "France’s biggest literary export and, some say, greatest living writer". In 2010 he published La Carte et le Territoire (published the same year in English as The Map and the Territory) which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt; and, in 2015, Submission.
