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| Title | : | Soumission |
| Author | : | Michel Houellebecq |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 300 pages |
| Published | : | January 7th 2015 by Flammarion |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. France. Politics. Novels. Contemporary. European Literature. French Literature |
Michel Houellebecq
Paperback | Pages: 300 pages Rating: 3.65 | 29251 Users | 2816 Reviews
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Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu motivé par l’enseignement, il s’attend à une vie ennuyeuse mais calme, protégée des grands drames historiques. Cependant les forces en jeu dans le pays ont fissuré le système politique jusqu’à provoquer son effondrement. Cette implosion sans soubresauts, sans vraie révolution, se développe comme un mauvais rêve. Le talent de l’auteur, sa force visionnaire nous entraînent sur un terrain ambigu et glissant ; son regard sur notre civilisation vieillissante fait coexister dans ce roman les intuitions poétiques, les effets comiques, une mélancolie fataliste. Ce livre est une saisissante fable politique et morale.
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| Original Title: | Soumission |
| ISBN: | 2081354802 (ISBN13: 9782081354807) |
| Edition Language: | French URL https://editions.flammarion.com/Catalogue/hors-collection/litterature-francaise/soumission |
| Characters: | Mohammed Ben-Abbes |
| Setting: | Paris,2022(France) |
| Literary Awards: | Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee (2016) |
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Ratings: 3.65 From 29251 Users | 2816 ReviewsAppraise Appertaining To Books Soumission
There are spoilers ahead. Michel Houellebecq's novel follows the career of a French academic during a future election in France in which a Muslim party wins. Francios, the novel's main character, is a scholar of the nineteenth-century French writer J.K. Huysman. Much like the life of Huysman, Francios moves from a life of hedonism and emptiness toward a life of faith and meaning. However, whereas Hysyman found his way back to Catholicism; Francios converts to Islam from being an academicAn amusing fictional mirroring of the life of Joris-Karl Huysmans: a misanthropic scholar, contemplating suicide, fed up of his philandering and hollow ways, over the hill in his career, unable to understand Huysmanss Catholic conversion, follows the 2022 elections, where the Muslim Brotherhood come to power, leading our anti-hero into his own religious conversion, albeit for impure and perverted reasons. The novel contains nothing controversial about Islamits worst sin is misinformation.
What a waste of a good idea! The basic premise for this book is both interesting and pertinent. Set in the near-future, theres been an Islamic take-over of France. The Muslim Brotherhood has come to power relatively peacefully and democratically. It seems an almost natural progression. Of course there are changes in society. Women are back in the home. No more revealing clothing allowed, and so on. Our protagonist is a middle-aged academic who essentially sees the world around him in terms of
I set out to read this book expecting to be provoked because in my experience Houellebecq is always hell-bent on provoking somebody, and very often that 'somebody' is of the opposite sex. I wasnt disappointed this time; his narrator managed to provoke me right at the beginning, and regularly from then on, so I decided that the only way to review this book was with a full set of teeth on show! But relax, my teeth are not bared, just revealed in a wide smile because the only way to take the
(Originally reviewed March 6, 2016) For years now, probably decades, Le Monde and all the other center-left newspapers, which is to say every newspaper, had been denouncing the "Cassandras" who predicted civil war between Muslim immigrants and the indigenous populations of Western Europe. The way it was explained to me by a colleague in the classics department, this was an odd allusion to make. In Greek mythology, Cassandra is a very beautiful young maiden ("like the golden Aphrodite," Homer
Description: 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 nineteenth-century novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans has led him nowhere. In a late-capitalist society where consumerism has become the new religion, François is spiritually barren, but seeking to fill the vacuum of his existence.And he is not alone. As the 2022 Presidential
Many readers have read naughty boy Michel Houellebecqs latest novel as an Islamophobic diatribe. I dont agree. Houellebecq has been justifiably criticized for earlier comments about Islam and surely Soumission does cater to the increasing French concern that what happened near Poitiers in 732 CE was only, for Islam, a temporary setback, but the real targets of his satire here are French politicians and French professors. In fact, one can read this as one of Frances relatively rare academic
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