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I read this, and now I'm just depressed.

>> No.11808476

cause you're a pleb

>> No.11808552

>>11808325
Why?

>> No.11809193
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>>11808325
You are depressed because what is happening in this book is happening in europe as we speak.

>> No.11809218

>>11808325
Knausgaard's review is great

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/books/review/michel-houellebecqs-submission.html

>> No.11809269

>>11809218
wow that is good
i've got a copy of submission on my stack, i might even read it now
might read that huysmans book he talks about too

>> No.11809291

>>11808552
Yeah the ending seems pretty uplifting in all honesty. The middle part when he’s at the monastery is pretty depressing.

>> No.11809292

>>11809193
happenings aren't bad, no need to be sad, happenings are just happenings

>> No.11809295

hollaback

>> No.11809313

>>11809193
Have you even read it? It's not a cautionary tale about Islam. It's a satire about the complacency and aimlessness of the western man.

>> No.11809315

>>11809313
exactly

and thats what I mean

>> No.11809322

>>11809315
Ok, sorry then.

Have you read elementary particles? My favorite houellebecq book. Heartbreaking.

>> No.11809331

>>11808325
Not trying to derail the thread but how hard is Houellebecq's french to read for a fairly poor non-native speaker. I'm trying to learn french by reading and I'm at the kind of stage when I can read "the stranger" with a dictionary at a fair pace. Is Houellebecq a similarly simple writer or is he more complex?

>> No.11809333

>>11809313
>It's not a cautionary tale about Islam. It's a satire about the complacency and aimlessness of the western man.
Well, in a sense, it's both, of course.

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>>11808325
>a novel

>> No.11809340

>>11809331
isn't he relevant enough to have bilingual editions of his books anyway?

>> No.11809397

>>11809338
>a tour de force
Every time

>> No.11809398

>>11809313
>Have you even read it? It's not a cautionary tale about Islam. It's a satire about the complacency and aimlessness of the western man.

Those two are the same thing

>> No.11809444

>>11809333
>>11809398
In the book the Islamic state is literally better than the previous

>> No.11809474

>>11808325
I'm depressed because I'm gay and I won't be able to have a male harem under Shariah law.

>> No.11809483

>>11809474
all these mudshits are gay as fuck
in Afgoonistan theres even a saying 'women are for children but little boys are for fun'

>> No.11809531

>>11809444
pedo detected

>> No.11809977

>>11809218
>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/books/review/michel-houellebecqs-submission.html
great read. houellebecq's books are the only ones i have finished in a long time.
does anyone have any rec's? lonely disillusioned protagonist with ennui etc