/lit/ - Literature

tba 4.1.2019 and who knows when in burgerland.

>>12267978
is this supposed to look like Brothers Karamazov?

lol

I ain't no Houellebecq girl

>>12268120
he did it again lads

Could someone give me a quick rundown on what this one is about?

>>12268195
>Houellebecq took the yellowpill
Absolutely based

Is there a chart or something?
Where do I start with this lil nigga?

>>12268195
Based Wellbeck-sama

>>12268339
you start with Whatever, or maybe Atomized (which is more or less the same but better and longer)
you avoid The Map and the Territory which is shit
Platform is ok, nothing special
Submission is controversial and interesting
The Possibility of an Island, I haven't read - some people say it's the best, anyway it seems to be quite different from the other ones
Try to find his collections of short essays, they're funny

>>12268370
Thanks man

>>12268370
You pleb. M&T is his best work.

>>12268313
It's said to be a somber and poignant book describing the sadness and emptiness of contemporary life, though a lonesome narrator, Florent-Claude Labrouste, haunted by his past and failed loves, kept alive by an anti-depressant drug, Captorix, based on serotonin. His story crosses a France that tramples on its traditions, banalizes its cities and destroys its countryside. He tells of his life as an agronomist, his friendship for an aristocrat farmer (his inverted double), the failure of the ideals of their youth, the perhaps foolish hope of finding a lost woman. This novel about the ravages of a world without kindness, without solidarity, to the mutations that have become uncontrollable, is also a novel about remorse and regret. (Description spliced from news scraps and blurb)

It foresees - by now after the fact - the yellow vests movement, and working class revolt

>>12267978
based based based

>>12268195
Cute

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>>12268469
Based

post the epub, mecs

>>12268405
I'm also writing a novel about the current state of France and I'm kind of worried about his book, why didn't he write a book about an incel uprising or something

>>12267978
Why does his name appear twice?

>>12268494
I hate you.

>>12268746
Because that's not happening. He has like 1 incel character in all his books. He's not an incel writer.

>>12268751
The upper part is the title, it includes his name.

>>12268759
I know he's not, but that's not an excuse for not writing one

>>12268761
So in English, Michel Houellebecq's Serotonine: A novel by Michel Houellebecq

>>12268765
It was pretty obvious his next book was going to be about France. What's your book about? Also modern France?

>>12268766
>Michel Houellebecq's Sero-MichelHouellebecq-tonine: A no-MichelHouellebecq-vel by Michel Houellebecq (written and houellebecq'd by Michel Houellebecq)

>>12268195
holy fucking based

>>12268772
Yes but in imaginary places, basically a big city and a countryside village in britanny. I had violence in the background gradually rising and the book is supposed to end with a protest in Paris so I was kinda happy when I saw the gilets jaunes coming though I was secretly wishing it wouldn't end in a revolution before I finished writing. I didn't know Well Beck was writing something and now that I've read some summaries I'm really bummed

>>12268195
based french goblin

>>12268370
I really liked The Elementary Particles. Any other books like it?

>>12268793
Bummer, indeed. But have you finished writing already? Are you writing in French?

>>12268784
>houellebecq'd by Michel Houellebecq

I huellebecq'd hard.

>>12268806
I'd better be writing in french considering my english is utter shite
As for the novel I haven't finished writing it, don't even have a few key plot points in the second half of the story though the plot ultimately doesn't really matter

>>12268751
the red thing is a removable cover the french like to put on paperbacks to hype it up

>>12268831
Just move the action to Mexico or Japan or someplace else. Why France?

>>12268751
The red part is a scrap of paper that has been added for advertisement purpose and can be removed. It's a shit attention grabbing practice common among publisher. Business gonna be business I guess, and Houellebecq is certainly a commercial author despite everything.

>>12268751
The lower part is a wrapper (bandeau) that you take off. Many French books have them, think the Japanese have something similar. It usually is a more shouty advertisement for the book (although in this case his name says enough).

gimme me an epub asap

french or english

>>12268793
>writing about popular protests
>in France

What a lazy way to pretend your work is a piece of visionary writing. There are mass protests every year in France, only this time it' bigger and more efficient/radical.

>>12268853
because I haven't been to either Mexico or Japan and french readers don't give a shit about those countries
But yeah it could happen literally everywhere, it's one of the point i'm making with it

>>12268863
Nah, buy the book, our Goblin King has to eat and smoke.

>>12268794
Houellebecq really does look like a goblin from the fairy tales, even in this classy suit he looks basically like a leprechaun.

>who-elly-back
Jesus Xrist, who names their baby goblin like that?

>>12268866
Oh, so you're French. You should've started there. Anyway, good luck.

>>12268866
Belgium then

>>12268864
the protest itself is just symbolic, the book is more about the mental progression of the narrator
It starts and it ends with an explosion of violence, I chose a protest because french people relate more with it, could be a riot or a revolution too

>>12268871
this

wellbeck deserves our money

>>12268871
he literally said he's too rich to understand the voters of the front national

he doesnt need more money to go jet skiing in croatia

>>12268881
in fact I plan to leave it ambiguous, it probably sounds like shit but It's more about the attitude toward violence than the end goal itself

>>12268884
How rich is he?

>>12268879
britanny has the timeless feel I'm looking for, Belgium is just plain shit

Would steal. Sorry. (This means fuck off, or get the fuck out of my way in Candianese.)

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>>12268898
Go for it, doesn't matter if it's shit.

>>12268909
No one knows. He lives an extremely frugal life so it's hard to guess.

English translation when

>>12269420
When you learn french

>>12269475
dubs and you die today

>>12269476
rolling

>>12269282
Oh I will, it's just that if I ever finish it, somehow manage to get published and have people read it, then I fear the point of the book might be missed because they still have houellebecq's in mind. It won't be "houellebecquian", though there are some similarities but that's to be expected nowadays

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>>12269476
Keep trying, fagotts

>>12269476
You need at least quints to kill someone you don't know anything about. Do you know anything about 4chaneurgy ?

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>>12269627
>Do you know anything about 4chaneurgy ?
Tell me more

NEW HOULLEBECQ YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS QUEEEEEEEEEN

>>12268195
>his wife is the chef from ratatouille

Oh Jesus Christ, this is too good

>>12270183
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Over time you'll get to meet the secret masters of 4chaneurgy who, if you are pobed strong enough, initiate you to the secret of bending the world to your will using 4chan trivia and paraphernalia.

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>>12270754
And Padawin, you will know that you've ascended to the final level of Mooticheism when you can meme like a true-born Kekistani, epic-style.

Shadilay, brothers.

>>12268388
This. Except I can understand burgers/anglos and third world des not to have much connection to it. Probably speaks more to fellow parisfags, french men or probably many Italians. Seeing all the little meaningful content still around you being turned into a museum piece for rich third worlders and anglos to look at because their lives are even more meaningless.

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>>12272751
Is the title of the book a reference to Borges (and to an extent, Jean Baudrillard)?

>>12268370
>The Map and the Territory which is shit
dum dum alert

>>12270754
The internet is the new domain of magic. On the internet reality is created by pure consensus and repetition. 4chans 'cosmogony' is the true nature of the internet. All mediated attempts of manipulating the consensus by 'upvotes' or twitter blue checks will fail.

The Russia hysteria is like a fear of demonic possession. Demons who lie and make them do/think stuff they don't like.

Relearning French for this.

Reading Plateforme atm and it's one of the funniest books I've ever read. Can't believe some people call his stuff dark and depressing.

The embargo is until December 27th, expect reviews afterwards; it's the largest print run of any novel this year in France with 320k; German translation comes out three days after the French, English sometime in September

>>12274088
>that pic

Toppest of keks. Thanks God I'm a permavirgin.

>>12270754
imagine reading all this

>>12268757
Based

>>12274088
Based

>>12274158
>ywn have a qt buy spells on the internet to make you love her