/lit/ - Literature

>>21641751
are you a soccer mom or what? this frog writes goods books

So wonderful. It would be a shame if a problematic, white male wrote something very similar in a much better way only shortly before her…

>The past is always beautiful. So, for that matter, is the future. Only the present hurts, and we carry it around like an abscess of suffering, our compassion between two infinities of happiness and peace.

Oh

Is Christianity a spent force?

Favorite book from Houllebecq?

I've read Atomised, Submission and Serotonin so far.

>>19815172
>Houellebecq was born in 1956 on the French island of Réunion, the son of Lucie Ceccaldi, a French physician born in Algeria of Corsican descent,[9] and René Thomas, a ski instructor and mountain guide.[

Michel Ceccaldi is Italian too.

>makes the same book over and over

Is he the greatest living Christian writer?

Do you like to read multiple books from the same author in a row and do a "deep dive" into one author's bibliography, or mix it up from book to book?

>Pages upon pages of description with no goal in sight
>"ahhh im wriiiiting!!!!!"
pathetic

>supports israel unconditionally
why do people like this retard?

What's his best book

>open a random thread
>pick out a random post without reading it
>respond to it with "retard"
>exit the thread and never open it again

Books for this feel?

>>15383993
Houellebecq on covid-19:
>Banal virus...no redeeming qualities... It's not even sexually transmitted.

>Thirty years later he could not come to any other conclusion: women were indisputably better than men. They were gentler, more affectionate, more loving and more compassionate, they were rarely violent, selfish, cruel or self-centred. Moreover, they were more rational, more intelligent and more hardworking.
What on earth were men for? Michael wondered as he watched sunlight play across the closed curtains. In earlier times, when bears were more common, perhaps masculinity served a particular function, but for centuries now, men served no useful purpose. For the most part, they assuaged their boredom playing squash, which was a lesser evil; but from time to time they felt the need to change history - which expressed itself in leading a revolution or starting a war somewhere. Aside from the senseless suffering they caused, revolutions and war destroyed the achievements of the past, forcing societies to build again. Without the notion of continuous progress, human evolution took random, irregular and violent turns for which men (with their predilection for risk and danger, their repulsive egotism, their volatile nature and their violent tendencies) were directly to blame. A society of women would be immeasurably superior, tracing a slow, unwavering progression, with no U-turns and no chaotic insecurity, towards a general happiness.

This man is literally the only person in the entire western culture industry not afraid to argue in defense of the male half of the population and addressing their experiences.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/michel-houellebecq-master-materialist-horror-louis-betty/

Is he the greatest writer of our time? The one who better explains our current era?

Not particularly comfy either. Who's your favourite /comfylit/ author?

Where do I start, /lit/? I've been meaning to read him for years and I think it's about fucking time.

When is he gonna get that nobel prize?

Also, is submission better than atomised?

>>9985394
I dont know how he went from this, and utterly average man

>>9564513
JUST

Michel Houellebecq. What should I read by him first?

And what should I read to prepare myself for him so that I get the most out of him? I've concerned myself with the Greeks, in case anyone is thinking of suggesting that.

>>9423730
I read madness and civilisation, pynchon, ect. hung out with that crowd. Went to orgy parties, did drugs, and learned how pomo as a philosophy implemented ruined my life.

Would you recommend Houellebecq? If so, what should I start by him?