/lit/ - Literature

I personally started with the movie adaptation of Whatever and Platform, which is lewd and entertaining. Whatever is the shortest and have the most prescient observations on the incel question, so maybe start here.
The one I've enjoyed the most is The Map and The Territory desu, it's not as edgy as the other ones and it's a pretty comfy book.
My few friends who have read Houellebecq all agree that The Possibility of an Island is his best, but I haven't read it yet.

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Funny, Germans generally love Houellebecq more than French people do. Pic related, one guy has adapted Submission into a play and this was displayed in front of Hamburg's Hauptbahnhof. I can't imagine this happening in France.
>may I guess that Michel Houellebecq is slightly right leaning or conservative or has a audience like that?
Kinda, yes. I'm a leftist but most leftists in France don't like him because he is critiquing "free love", New Left ideology and modernity, which makes them uncomfortable. He is more appreciated by right-wingers generally. Houellebecq himself doesn't seem to care about endorsing any political stuff, he is blasé.

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Abroad perhaps, but in France, it's not the case.
Liberals still see him as islamophobic and sexist here, and anarcho-leftists think he is too incel, conservative and whiny and excuse the mediocrity of modern life in his writings -- ironically like the people who think the Dilbert principle normalize incompetence at the workplace -- or whatever.
I'm an anarcho-Marxist but love his novels and I'm definitely the odd one in my group of friends. The very few people I know who also like him are generally identifying up to a point with the lonely protagonists, and prefer The Possibility of an Island over his most realistic works.

By comparison, talking about the political theories of Nick Land and Moldbug don't get me cancelled, because no one understand the extent of how truly fucked up they are and French people can't into English anyway. De Sade and Bataille are okay too, because they are too edgy to be cancelled.

Pic related is Germany's largest theater advertising an adaptation of Submission, in front of Hamburg's train station, when I was there during the G20 protests. It goes to show that Houellebecq is much more appreciated in Germany and abroad than in France.