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Pathos, Poetry and Politics in Michel Houellebecq's Fiction

Pathos, Poetry and Politics in Michel Houellebecq's Fiction

Williams, Russell

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 9004416897
ISBN13: 9789004416895
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 14 2019
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
In Pathos, Poetry and Politics in Michel Houellebecq's fiction, Russell Williams examines the literary style of France's most notorious novelist. Houellebecq is frequently the focus of debate for his provocative comments about Islam and the decline of Western civilisation. This book refocuses attention on how such provocation is an integral part of the texture of his novels.
Williams considers Houellebecq's writing about literature and outlines the key principles of the author's poetics, founded on an acute sensitivity to reading experience. He then explores Houellebecq's earliest poetry before mapping this poetic voice into his subsequent fiction, including Sérotonine (2019). Houellebecq's relationship with genre fiction and the crucial issue of the authorial persona that exists in and around his texts are also explored.

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