It can be entertaining, disordered, ruminative, wider in range than Houellebecq’s previous books More
One can only wonder what it would have been had Houellebecq actually believed in the novel as an art form. More
"This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of those unbridled passions, stretching over many years, and at times making their effect felt on several generations? We’re a long way from Wuthering Heights, to say the least. The novel form is not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness; a flatter, more terse, and dreary discourse would need to be invented."
— Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
