Books by Michel Houellebecq

Portrait of Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq is one of France's most provocative contemporary novelists, known for his fearless exploration of modern malaise, alienation, and desire. His fiction blends biting social observation with dark humour, creating unsettling yet compelling portraits of Western life in decline. Each new work stirs debate for its candour and insight, cementing Houellebecq's status as both literary provocateur and acute cultural diagnostician.

His novels, essays, and poetry challenge readers to confront uncomfortable truths about love, faith, technology, and the human condition. Written in a cool, precise style that amplifies their emotional charge, his books have earned major literary prizes and international acclaim. A Houellebecq title promises intensity, intelligence, and a starkly honest look at the contradictions of our age.

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  • Platform Vintage International

    Random House USA Inc Platform Vintage International

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  • Editions Flammarion La carte et le territoire

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  • Interventions 2020

    Flammarion Interventions 2020

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  • Poesie: avec Configuration du dernier rivage

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  • H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

    Cernunnos H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

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    Book SynopsisPart biographical sketch, part pronouncement on existence and literature, the French best-selling novelist Michel Houellebecq's H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life was published in France in 1991 and is the first non-fiction text ever published by the author. In this encomium, France’s most famous contemporary author praises his prewar American alter ego’s style, which couldn't be much less like his own. With a foreword by a Lovecraft admirer, Stephen King, this eloquently translated edition is both an insightful introduction to Lovecraft’s dark mythology and Houellebecq’s deadpan prose.

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  • DuMont Buchverlag GmbH Elementarteilchen

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  • Unterwerfung

    DuMont Buchverlag GmbH Unterwerfung

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  • DuMont Buchverlag GmbH Volksfeinde

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  • DuMont Buchverlag GmbH Vernichten

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  • DuMont Buchverlag GmbH Suche nach Glck Der Sinn des Kampfes Wiedergeburt

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  • DuMont Buchverlag GmbH Gestalt des letzten Ufers

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  • DuMont Buchverlag GmbH In Schopenhauers Gegenwart

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  • Editorial Anagrama S.A. Submissió

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    Book SynopsisFrança, 2022. Els partits tradicionals s?han enfonsat i Mohammed Ben Abbes, líder d?una nova formació islamista, derrota la candidata del Front Nacional a les eleccions presidencials. En François, un professor universitari fastiguejat de la docència i de la seva vida sexual, veu com la transformació que segueix l?arribada del nou president altera la vida dels francesos i li depara un futur inesperat. Els jueus emigren, les dones canvien les faldilles per les bruses llargues i els pantalons i alguns comerços tanquen o reorienten el negoci. La Sorbona és una universitat islàmica on els professors conversos gaudeixen de salaris excel?lents i tenen dret a la poligàmia. I, com Huysmans, l?escriptor del segle XIX convertit al catolicisme, en François sospesarà pronunciar les paraules que li obriran les portes d?una nova vida: No hi ha més déu que Al?là i Mahoma és el seu profeta.Submissió va arribar a les llibreries franceses el dia de l?atemptat contra Charlie Hebdo i Houellebecq, acusa

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  • Editorial Anagrama Serotonina

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  • Editorial Empuries Plataforma

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    Book SynopsisThe novel centers around Michel, a forty-year-old exhibits agent for the French Ministry of Culture. In the opening chapter, he must deal with his father's murder.

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  • Submission

    Picador USA Submission

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    Book SynopsisA controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous living literary figureIt's 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famed nineteenth-century novelist associated with the Decadent movement. But François's own decadence is of considerably smaller scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, and watches YouPorn.Meanwhile, it's election season, and in an alliance with the Socialists, France's new Islamic party sweeps to powerand Islamic law is instituted. Women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged, and François is offered an irresistible academic advancementon the condition that he converts to Islam.A darkly comic masterpiece from one of France's great writers, Submission by Michel Houellebecq has become an international sensation and one of the most discussed novels of our time.

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  • Serotonin

    Picador USA Serotonin

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    Book SynopsisMichel Houellebecq's Serotonin is a caustic, frightening, hilarious, raunchy, offensive, and politically incorrect novel about the decline of Europe, Western civilization, and humanity in general.Deeply depressed by his romantic and professional failures, the aging hedonist and agricultural engineer Florent-Claude Labrouste feels he is dying of sadness. He hates his young girlfriend, and the feeling is almost certainly mutual; his career is pretty much over; and he has to keep himself thoroughly medicated to cope with day-to-day life.Suffocating in the rampant loneliness, consumerism, hedonism, and sprawl of the city, Labrouste decides to head for the hills, returning to Normandy, where he once worked promoting regional cheeses and where he was once in love, and evenit now seemshappy. There he finds a countryside devastated by globalization and by European agricultural policies, and encounters farmers longing, like Labrouste himself, for an impossible r

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