The number of readers who bite their fingers to have believed that Michel Houellebecq was an important writer further increased after the publication of his dialogue with Michel Onfray in the supplement of the Journal Front Populaire, where both leave As a crusade for the West, emasculated by individual emancipation. It remains to save the writer of the ideologist, Céline still serving as a model.
of this debate, the only one that is worth if we like the literature that reveals to us, whatever it has to reveal to us, MO12345lemonde reported: on December 4, Jean Birnbaum recommends destroy, from Houellebecq, among the “Best books of the year”; On December 16, Marc-Olivier Bherer analyzes “the radicalization of a successful author” and, eight days later, Michel Guerrin returns to it in his titled Chronicle “Ernaux and Houellebecq, by their cold distance, showing without demonstrating, are just as disturbing and precious “.
The ideological cause of the novelist being now and finally heard, we preserve his sociological realism, by being satisfied with his narrow description grid. If it was “prophetic”, as it has been repeated a lot, it was of a generalized all-fut-le-Camp which sprained the political path of the negation of the other. Let us remind our two worried about the West that the contempt of the other was the definition of sin that Christ the Christ.
It is surprising that it took a long time to see that the Houellebecquien narrator, always the same from one novel to another, therefore constitutes the spokesperson for its author. If we should not confuse narrator or character and author, this applies to this one and not only for the reader. Conversely, which makes the troubled strength of the cursed (1931), by Fritz Lang, who pressed the beginnings of Nazism, is not this wrong character, but his visionary interlocking.
Literature has the function of “showing without demonstrating”. The problem is that this relevant criterion does not work, here yet, and there was only need Houellebecq spit the piece: his sociological vision, allegedly revealing the darkness of the current world, is sociologizing, because systematized by its execration of everything Which, in our democracies, whatever he thinks, frees us from the authoritarian oppressions of which he has nostalgia, with the violent veulery of the repressed. Example, his umpteenth load against Muslim “replacement”, which unwinds the great mosque of Paris: what bothers Houellebecq and its identical narrators is never radical Islamism, and for good reason, since it opposes our freedoms that Houellebecq dedicates to his barbecue irony.
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