/lit/ - Literature

>>9726767
I don't know anything about Zadie Smith, but I'm impressed by this bit you posted. The paragraph starts terribly ("politics should be therapeutic!") but ends with a call to unity between races. It's odd to read an educated person, let alone an educated black person, calling for less racial division anymore.

As for the thread's actual topic: Houellebecq is the Houellebecq of the left. A right-winger would just assume that '68 was shit, but Houellebecq shows the reader how it fails by its own criteria. He's a former lefty who got burned and is speaking to other lefties and former lefties. A true reactionary wouldn't bother.