Houellebecq

[Anonymous No.18385040]

opinions on this fella and his writing?

[Anonymous No.18385054]

incel persona, amateurish writing

[Anonymous No.18385072]

>>18385040
In 30 years either he will look like a prophet for writing "Submission" or an idiot.

[Anonymous No.18385370]

>>18385040
Overrated little man

[Anonymous No.18385380]

Unironically intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.

[Anonymous No.18385381]

Based

[Anonymous No.18385640]

>>18385040
proto incel phenomena prophet just like how nietzsche was a proto post modernist

[Anonymous No.18385844]

>>18385040
>Aging painter/professor/comedian has SEX with young girls oh and also there's a subplot about Muslims/cultists taking over the world

[Anonymous No.18385866]

I like his books

[Anonymous No.18385921]

Hoellebecq good

[Anonymous No.18385985]

>>18385040
Cant seem to understand the appeal, guess it works for some folks.

[Anonymous No.18386086]

>>18385040
>Constant descriptions of French cigars, cigarettes, French oysters, confit birds, French wines and champagnes.
>All books are just French people eating, smoking and fucking

As a frog living abroad, it makes me nostalgic for my country.

[Anonymous No.18386137]

>>18385985
>folks.
lmao

[Anonymous No.18386270]

>>18386086
I've only read a collection of his press articles and found the 'style' very appealing. Is the prose worth getting into or nah?

[Anonymous No.18386396]

>>18386270
I enjoy his style very much. I read him in French though, so I won't be able to say much about the translations. I find him very comfy and easy to read.

[Anonymous No.18386448]

Serotonin sucked, it felt like a repeat of his past work, but overall he's one of the most novel authors of our time and probably one of the few who can show us a picture of the reality we are living in (and the one we are going towards)

[Anonymous No.18386577]

>>18385040
I like the fella, the writing is boring but not in a good way

[Anonymous No.18387168]

Literally 4chan: the author. If you're into that then read him but ultimately he will be completely unproductive in stimulating personal or intellectual growth

[Anonymous No.18387205]

If you're interested in analysis of his writing, Louis Betty's Without God and Ben Jeffrey's Anti-Matter are worth checking out. Both fairly short.

[Anonymous No.18387469]

>>18385844
t. life

[Anonymous No.18388453]

>>18385040
Actually, last week I have seen a man identical to him in my city, which made me think a bit about him and realized that he really isn't that talked about on here as he was a few years back. It wasn't him btw, but incredible resemblence.

And for writing - you read one and you've read them all. Shock value for normies.
Submission sticks out a bit, but even that is just bitter sex stuff.

If you're 15 he'll do for your personal Nietzsche until you grow up.

[Anonymous No.18388955]

>>18385040
he makes me very sad

[Anonymous No.18389089]

>>18385040
are the rumours true that he only thought once about Islam?

[Anonymous No.18390600]

>>18385072
>In 30 years
It's been like 6 years and he's a prophet

[Anonymous No.18390856]

>>18386270
I've read Plateforme that is quite effective (and was terribly prophetic at the time).
Reading La Carte et le Territoire, that has a lot more humour and irony (like Houellebecq being a character of the novel but neither the "hero" Jed Martin nor the narrator).

[Anonymous No.18390863]

His prose is not particularly pretty but he gets the times.

>>18390856
>Reading La Carte et le Territoire, that has a lot more humour and irony (like Houellebecq being a character of the novel but neither the "hero" Jed Martin nor the narrator).
Map & Territory is my favorite work from him. How the policeman still follows these old ideals like a good citizen while the world only gives a fuck about money.

[Anonymous No.18390957]

just like how 50 shades of grey is just porn for people who don’t know how the computer works, hollaback is just 4chan for people who have never been to 4chan. edgy pulp for the masses

[Anonymous No.18390976]

based

[Anonymous No.18391026]

>>18385040
>you will witness the transformation of France in your lifetime
Can't wait

[Anonymous No.18391039]

>>18385040
the Fr*nch deserve everything that is coming to them

[Anonymous No.18391077]

>>18385040
I don't like him much but I respect his hatred for life and mankind

[Anonymous No.18391080]

>>18385072
lol

[Anonymous No.18391159]

>>18391077
He doesn't hate life or mankind, else he wouldn't write the things he does. He hates how they are raped.

[Anonymous No.18391171]

>>18385040
i enjoy his novels, my favourite contemporary writer

[Anonymous No.18391178]

What a hideous man!

[Anonymous No.18391195]

>>18391159
But mankind is the rapist. The autorapist if you will

[Anonymous No.18391788]

Why are French people so weird looking? They look like what you would get if you mixed an Italian, a Brit, a German, a frog, and a beaver together into one person.

[Anonymous No.18391791]

it's about time someone brought up this guy around here

[Anonymous No.18391942]

>>18385072
Islam is slowly being pacified and liberalised in Turkey and the West, I think his predictions are extremely inaccurate. However, I do think that France becoming increasingly diverse will be extremely consequential politically.

[Anonymous No.18391953]

>>18391195
no woman’s rights is the rapist

[Anonymous No.18392034]

>>18385054
>wins the biggest french reward for literature
Keep seething

[Anonymous No.18392038]

>>18385072
Islamification is just a background for what is more importantly critique of western numale

[Anonymous No.18392645]

>>18391942
this, houellebecq fell into the "islam takeover of europe" narrative trend among normies around 2015 and got carried away with it. he's far more original and prescient on his other topics

[Anonymous No.18392687]

>>18392645
>this, houellebecq fell into the "islam takeover of europe" narrative trend among normies around 2015 and got carried away with it. he's far more original and prescient on his other topics

Islamic immigrants and the children of those immigrants will make up 50% of the under 40 population of France by 2040.

[Anonymous No.18392717]

>>18392687
French people look like Arabs anyway. You'll never be able to tell the difference.

[Anonymous No.18392729]

>>18385040
do you think he ever says Houelle, Houelle, Houelle, what do we have here? Because that would be pretty funny, I think

[Anonymous No.18393073]

>>18391942
>Islam is slowly being pacified and liberalised in Turkey
>Turkey elects Erdogan

[Anonymous No.18393095]

>>18391942
>Islam is slowly being pacified and liberalised in Turkey
Turkey has never been this Islamic since before Ataturk

[Anonymous No.18393319]

>>18393073
>>18393095
I said slowly because the younger generation is in rebellion against Islamic conservatism and will likely be assimilated into the organisation and identity of the secular neoliberal European Union. I believe this because not too long ago the leading opposition in Turkey managed to get over 300,000 views on Twitch which obviously reflects the more liberal views of younger Turks.

[Anonymous No.18393347]

>>18393073
I would have an easier time believing this if Erdogan didn't get elected. Before that it did look like you are describing it.
The way I'm reading you it's just supposed to be a set back I guess.
I hope you're right, but I have my doubts.

[Anonymous No.18393351]

this >>18393347 reply was supposed to go here >>18393319

[Anonymous No.18393425]

>>18393347
>>18393347
>I hope you're right, but I have my doubts.
I mean even with Erdogan elected the 'march of progress' continues with seemingly no delay, at most, you can expect Erdogan to impede or stagnate the march but once he is gone it will continue onwards. There will never be any reversion, only delay.

[Anonymous No.18393505]

>>18393425
>'march of progress' continues with seemingly no delay
Yeah I guess I fundamentally don't believe in some inevitable march of progress.

[Anonymous No.18393531]

Reminds me of Stephen King.
Something good to pick up in an airport

[Anonymous No.18393654]

>>18393425
>march of progress
History doesn't have a Telos, and there won't be a "final synthesis"

[Anonymous No.18393726]

>>18393425
You will live to see your worldview entirely shattered

[Anonymous No.18393788]

>>18385040
If y’all read submission then you should be stoked for an Islamic theocracy.

[Anonymous No.18395302]

>>18385040
He is one of the extremely few living authors worth reading.

[Anonymous No.18395327]

>>18393788
>you should be stoked for an Islamic theocracy.
Not if you aren't a Muslim, I am not in the mood to be martyred

[Anonymous No.18396105]

>>18385072
Submission was released on the day of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. He's already a prophet.

[Anonymous No.18396130]

>>18392034
>le award

Doesn't mean shit.

[Anonymous No.18396211]

>>18385040
Where should I start with him? Submission or Atomised?

[Anonymous No.18397363]

only read Carte
pretty gud. I really dig his style will try more after I finish my backlog

[Anonymous No.18397414]

>>18385040
seems like a nice enough lad, though his face is a bit off-putting.

[Anonymous No.18397422]

>>18385844
yes and it's brilliant.

[Anonymous No.18397465]

>>18392645
>writes satire on narrative trend among normies

>"fell for the trend and got carried away with it."

t.brainlet

[Anonymous No.18397478]

>>18393425
>Once almost western turkey regresses more and more into a caliphate with sharia law.

>this is just a slight delay on the march to progress!

Wake up

[Anonymous No.18397524]

>>18385040
Typical dirty French man. Kinda based

[Anonymous No.18397907]

>>18396211
If you are more racists than you are sexists: Submission
If you are more sexist than you are racists: Atomized

[Anonymous No.18397917]

>>18397907
I can't personally equalise my Racism and my Sexism to a sufficient degree to decide which is greater in magnitude—they are both too high to quantify; which should I read first?

[Anonymous No.18397963]

>>18397917
Submission. I started there and got hooked.

[Anonymous No.18398061]

>>18397917
Submission is honestly his worst book. Don't get me wrong, I hate the towelheads but it fell flat to me. The fiction politics is very stale and the protagonist is too much of a retard. The only interesting thing is the description of academia bending over to muslims.
Elementary particules, platform, possibility of an island and carte and territory are the good ones.

[Anonymous No.18398579]

>>18386448
>it felt like a repeat of his past work
all his books are repeats tbf

[Anonymous No.18400250]

>>18385072
He did good predictions with Serotonine too (yellow jackets riots)