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[Anonymous No.11632869]

>"What is rather surprising is that at least three of the characters – Philip Schnäbele, Jean-Yves Fréhaut and Catherine Lechardoy – actually exist, and have simply been plonked into the book. Understandably, they took it badly: they are represented, like many characters in Houellebecq’s novels, as pointless and pathetic. (‘Her ugly little face is glum, she regularly wipes her glasses. I even wonder if she hasn’t been crying; I can just picture her breaking into sobs in the morning as she gets dressed, all alone.’) Demonpion records the grievances of Schnäbele (in the novel, a self-aggrandising IT manager known as ‘the Serpent’), who has no memory of meeting Houellebecq: ‘I recognise myself in his descriptions. He describes my office, mentioning the posters that I had up at that time, which proves that he was physically there – but from a very biased point of view. That said, an author has every right to his freedom of expression. I just wish he’d changed my name.’"

Why would he do this?

I still can't understand, on an ethical level, why Houellebecq would include the real names of real people in his novel and attack them so viciously.

[Anonymous No.11632885]

>>11632869
>ethics
spooky

[Anonymous No.11632911]

>>11632869
Why not? What are they gonna do cry about it?

[Anonymous No.11632925]

>>11632869
Were is that meme comic with the guy who says "hey, what's up" as he passes someone only to go home and angrily brood about it on the internet.

I imagine that's what this guy is doing.

[Anonymous No.11632938]

So how much of his physical deterioration would you say is due to his lifestyle and how much to genetics?

[Anonymous No.11632965]

>>11632869
He didn't even change the names? My estimation for him is significantly lowered.

[Anonymous No.11632969]

>>11632925
yes

[Anonymous No.11632993]

>>11632869
Probably he is an immoral person who doesnt care about others, he just wanted publicity from the stunt, incompetence, any one of those or in combination

[Anonymous No.11633005]

>>11632869
jesus christ man ash that thing

[Anonymous No.11633023]

>>11632869
Houellebecq is an incompetent writer without a quark of originality in his frail, cracking bones. Disgusting. A charlatan and a cretin, should be gassed.

[Anonymous No.11633095]

>>11632938
I think it slightly swerves into the lifestyle lane.
I don't think he goes a day without getting drunk.

[Anonymous No.11633149]

He is the new Dante

[Anonymous No.11633511]

>>11632869
>puts real people in his book, talks shit about them, and doesn't even try to disguise it by changing their names
Is it humanly possible to get more BASED than that?

[Anonymous No.11634430]

>>11633149
>>11633511
based

[Anonymous No.11634554]

I wish he were more prolific.

[Anonymous No.11634675]

Laughing my ass off, what a legend

[Anonymous No.11634760]

>>11632869
>self-aggrandising IT manager
>has no memory of meeting Houellebecq
LMAO, it seems Houellebecq described him just fine. Schnäbele eternally BTFO.

[Anonymous No.11634806]

Is that a combover?

[Anonymous No.11634825]

>>11632938
Mostly lifestyle. He looks like one of those French degenerates who smokes and drinks all day

[Anonymous No.11634828]

>>11632869
I'd be honored to be a character in one of his novels, regardless of how i'm portrayed

[Anonymous No.11634830]

>>11633005
its like everything he does is to just piss you off, kek

[Anonymous No.11634831]

>>11634760
kek

[Anonymous No.11634843]

>>11632869
He seems to do everything out of resentment.

[Anonymous No.11636005]

bump

[Anonymous No.11636131]

>>11633023
At least he's a writer.

[Anonymous No.11636136]

>>11632925
you mean niggerwalks?

[Anonymous No.11636141]

>>11636131

[Anonymous No.11636145]

>>11632869
That's based.

[Anonymous No.11636165]

Just don't read Jean Baptiste

[Anonymous No.11636178]

Houellebecq put himself into M&T own book and it was very funny. I believe the character was only getting by on sausage and wine at one point, stuck in Iceland?
So it’s all fair


>>11634760
This