/lit/ - Literature

who is the houellebecq of our generation?

Read Platform or Submission by him and you will realize he hates Islamic world so much. He despices this religion because it Attacked the west; bombed its cities and terrorized its people. When he was being confronted with the question, “But why Al Qaeda or mujahideen attacked the west?” He desperately said that it because was simply writen in their holy book as obligation to attack the kuffar.

However this argument is misleading. According to Chomsky, Bin Laden and his boys were attacking the west especially America because the west has spread neo colonialism in the arabian territories. They justified the occupation of Israel in palestine for 60 years, they forced western hegemony by bombing cities, and they replaced local regimes with their neoliberal Puppets leaders.

Human consciousness is the product of its material condition. Bin Laden had this consciousness; America and the west are the bad guys because the nightmarish material condition in arabian territories is conditioned by those guys.

Life is deterministic by nature. Bin Laden is the condition, the west is the antecedent. Hoeullebecq doesn’t understand this and therefore he is an ahistorical author.

>Welbeck

Is he a meme?

>>19485037
Because he's wearing a hat. But I mean, in general, when he's brought up this is what I see

He was robbed of his Nobel again so bunch of swedecucks could virtue signal about racism and colonialism one more time. Disgusting.

I think Houellebecq holds up a mirror to society, so your reaction to his work says more about you than him. Like, the characters in the novel are stand-ins for desires, so they're not exactly human, but more like psychological caricatures. But they're believable as they express people's subconscious desires. And the people he's writing about do exist.

He's not really political in the sense of making earnest claims about anything. Pretty much every faction is insulted in the most extreme way possible. Like if you're an FN supporter, his characters will say a bunch of stuff about Islam being the most retarded religion, but then the joke is also at the expense of the FN supporters who turn out to just be the last gasps of a dying civilization.

You bitter, clumsy, weak, racist, xenophobic, stupid cowards. You're so terrified of the abyss that you cling to some wretched, hideous, wrinkled French scribbler who smells bad and has a giant nose, terrified of losing another meaningless nanosecond of your unfathomably wretched life like a gecko over a spinning blender blade. And your reaction to that sentence says more about you.

Is there any novelist who writes about our modern condition as engagingly as Houellebecq? I just finished reading all of his books and I'm hungry for more

What's his best?

What does /lit/ think of Houellebecq?

Read this incel if you're learning French. His writing is simple.

incel

Read all his works and now I want to kill myself. Is there an antidote to any of it?

To jerk, or not to jerk, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the balls to suffer
The aches and lusts of outrageous horniness,
Or to take a hand against an oak of flesh,
And by masturbating end it: to jerk, to cum;
No more; and by a cum, to say we end
The blue balls, and the thousand horny thoughts
That men are heir to? 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To jerk, to cum,
To cum, perchance to think; aye, there's the rub,
For in that release of jizz, what thoughts may come,
When we have shuffled off these coomer urges,
Must give us pause.

HOLY SHIT

>>16754552
to this

>>16635299
"The disappearance of patrimonial transmission means that an old guy today is just a useless ruin. The thing we value most of all is youth, which means that life automatically becomes depressing, because life consists, on the whole, of getting old."

Yes, but it's not what you want to hear.

>>16510338
>mfw animals of another species get more hooman poosey than i do
how do i cope with this

What are some books that help you cope with not being beautiful?

>“I hadn’t seen any novel make the statement that entering the workforce was like entering the grave. That from then on, nothing happens and you have to pretend to be interested in your work. And, furthermore, that some people have a sex life and others don’t just because some are more attractive than others. I wanted to acknowledge that if people don’t have a sex life, it’s not for some moral reason, it’s just because they’re ugly. Once you’ve said it, it sounds obvious, but I wanted to say it.”

Books about how the only thing that matters in life is looks?

>>15828976
Huysmans and Houellebecq

I recently just finished Submission (which I thought was very good), and back in January I read The Elementary Particles (which is my favorite so far). What do I read next? I heard Platform is very good, but I’ve also heard The Map and the Territory was one of his best. What do I read from him next?