/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12185398]

Ok so this sucked.

[Anonymous No.12185481]

You don't belong here

[Anonymous No.12185510]

>>12185481
why? such an unoriginal novel

[Anonymous No.12185516]

>>12185398
I believe you and I'm not surprised. Everything I've read of Michel is complete shit.

[Anonymous No.12185526]

>>12185516
Even Atomised? People claim that it's the best thing to come out of Europe after WWII.

[Anonymous No.12185534]

>>12185526
Read it, then, and see if that assessment is true.

[Anonymous No.12185542]

I only read Possibility of an Island, and some excerpts of Atomised. He is so fixated on the aging of the female body. It reads as juvenile. Like someone who never grew out of grad school.

[Anonymous No.12185546]

>>12185516
Pleb taste.

>>12185526
No.

Atomised and The Map and The Territory are his best books.

[Anonymous No.12185585]

>>12185546
I think you're the pleb for liking Houellebecq. You happen to like Modiano as well? Maybe Karl Ove? If so, I would say your tastes are very, very plebeian, baby.

[Anonymous No.12185586]

>>12185542
It's not as if he is obsessed with senescence just for the sake of it. Did you just conveniently skip all of the excerpts where his concern is tied to the larger context of the liberalization of sexuality, and how these things have a part in creating the virulent cult of youth idolization?

[Anonymous No.12185614]

>>12185585
Houellebecq mixes high and low culture so well that retards like you don't get it.

[Anonymous No.12185627]

This book drops some nuclear level redpills on sexual relations, I tjought it was just memes. Especially that story with the chimp

[Anonymous No.12185631]

>>12185614
Shame for the shitty prose.

[Anonymous No.12185642]

>>12185546
You sir are wrong, The Possibility of an Island is his literary masterpiece, everything else is passable

[Anonymous No.12185667]

>>12185631
Nowt wrong with his prose bab.

[Anonymous No.12185694]

>>12185667
I would strongly disagree, but it's ok, like Michel Schmulibeqc all you want.

[Anonymous No.12185698]

Ok so this sucked

[Anonymous No.12185718]

Ok so this sucked.

[Anonymous No.12185735]

>>12185546
The Map and The Territory is a failed book on every aspect. Anyone disagreeing should be spend a few years in a re-education camp.

[Anonymous No.12185738]

0 k S o T h I $ s U c K(space) e D

[Anonymous No.12185750]

Ok so this rocked.

[Anonymous No.12185751]

>>12185735
Houellebecq's 3 best:

>The possibility or an island
>The Elementary Particles
>Submission

[Anonymous No.12185758]

Ok so this sucked.

[Anonymous No.12185765]

genuinely a terrible cover

[Anonymous No.12185777]

It was until Submission that I got what he was trying to tell us all along. I recommend you read it.

[Anonymous No.12185793]

ok so this sucked

[Anonymous No.12185850]

>protagonist hasn't had sex in 2 years
Yeah cant relate... author thinks 2 years of no sex is somehow worthy of bringing up. The author who is now married to a beautiful asian wife. You guys told me this was robot lit. Im a virgin, need actual wizchan sh*it.

[Anonymous No.12185869]

>>12185850
Michel is one horrendous guy though.

[Anonymous No.12185881]

>>12185850
It is once you actually get laid, also tisserand is in the story m8. Also kek his wife looks like as much of a goblin as michel.

[Anonymous No.12185892]

>>12185793
this cover definitely does

[Anonymous No.12185899]

>>12185850
It's been hopeless for a long time, from the very beginning. You will never represent, anon, a young girl's erotic dream. You have to resign yourself to the inevitable; such things are not for you. It's already too late, in any case. The sexual failure you've known since your adolescence, anon, the frustration that has followed you since the age of thirteen, will leave their indelible mark. Even supposing that you might have women in the future - which in all frankness I doubt - this will not be enough; nothing will ever be enough. You will always be an orphan to those adolescent loves you never knew. In you the wound is already deep; it will get deeper and deeper. An atrocious, unremitting bitterness will end up gripping your heart. For you there will be neither redemption nor deliverance. That's how it is

[Anonymous No.12185907]

>>12185850
Anyone from 4chan should identify better with the incel coworker anyways.

[Anonymous No.12185953]

>>12185899

[Anonymous No.12186015]

So what was the deal with the last scene with Tisserand? Why did the narrator bring the knife, was he sincerely hoping Tisserand would use it and murder someone? The narrator himself seemed to be losing his grip on sanity by that point either way, I kind of appreciated how matter of factly his psychotic episodes were portrayed towards the end of the novel. Pretty weak ending, but I guess that's life.

[Anonymous No.12186025]

did he go to the forest to kill himself or something?

[Anonymous No.12186035]

>>12185735
>being this dense
juxtaposition, son

[Anonymous No.12186053]

>>12186025
No. Obviously it just represented a new start for the protagonist. He probably went back to the hotel, hit the gym, quit smoking, start dating women again.

[Anonymous No.12186066]

>>12186053
that's good to know because it would be really sad if he killed himself that would be messed up haha

[Anonymous No.12186071]

>>12185510
How the fuck is it unoriginal? It's literally the first novel of it's kind and Houellebecq is the only renowned author that deals with inceldom.
Kys you normalfaggot

[Anonymous No.12186094]

>>12186015
Yes, at least that what's I thought; life had become such a bore and so meaningless and benile for the narrator that he thought it would be funny to convince Tisserand to kill that guy. He found the only person who looks up to him, and instantly goes to abuse this newfound power. Fucked up.
>>12186053
Don't agree, there is no indication that tge protag wants to or is going to start a new life. If anything the ending contrasts his life with the beautiful forest, and iplies that he's going to do fuck all to start again. Or at least that's my view.

[Anonymous No.12186640]

>>12186094
In the end the protag simply realizes that he missed on the point of living. It's too late for him. Maybe he'll try. He hoped something would happen if he moved out the City.

[Anonymous No.12186649]

>>12186640
precisely

[Anonymous No.12186678]

>>12185899

The French, like women, are not human.

[Anonymous No.12186699]

>>12185899
>LonelyandHorny.jpg

[Anonymous No.12186755]

>>12185758
tbf everything french post-1950s not named foucault does

[Anonymous No.12186895]

>>12185850
michel is ugly and decrepit as fuck and his wife looks like a pan.

[Anonymous No.12187350]

>>12185850

>married to a beautiful asian wife

kek, his wife looks like shit m8. And thats coming from an autist with yellow fever who has a chinese gf.

[Anonymous No.12187421]

>>12185899
>You will never represent, anon, a young girl's erotic dream.
I'm not an atrocious neckbeard, I'm fit and pretty normal looking and have at least one interesting hobby, I've just literally never interacted with females in my life - not as friends, not in school growing up, and I'm NEET so I don't work with anybody apart from doing manual labour occasionally but then I'm paired with sweaty Romanians and my male relatives.
I feel like I have the potential to win a female's affections though.

[Anonymous No.12187620]

>>12186895
>>12187350
You probably saw that picture of him and his wife floating around and that’s why you think she’s ugly. I would too if that’s all I saw, it makes her look pretty bad. However I saw her and Michel at a book signing and she looked waaaaay better in person. She has a god tier booty, you can just barely make it out from the front it’s so big. Her titties while not huge are ridiculously supple and milky. She had on a light sweater and you could make out the shape of her huge nipples, it was quite erotic. The face is so so but it doesn’t matter when you yard ass and titties like her.

[Anonymous No.12187626]

It was just Whatever.

[Anonymous No.12187627]

>>12185718
this is the best cover of IJ ive seen and i dont even like it