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The map and the territory

Having made his name with an exhibition of photographs of Michelin roadmaps - beautiful works that won praise from every corner of the art world - Jed Martin is now emerging from a ten-year hiatus. And he has had some good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward annual Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love affair with the beautiful Olga. It is that, for his new exhibition, he has secured the involvement of none other than the French novelist Michel Houellebecq. The great writer has agreed to write the text for the exhibition guide, for which he will be paid handsomely and also have his portrait painted by Jed. The exhibition - 'Professions', a series of portraits of ordinary and extraordinary people at work - brings Jed new levels of global fame. Yet his boiler is still broken, his ailing father flirts with oblivion and, worse still, he is contacted by one Inspector Jasselin, who requests his assistance in solving an unspeakable, atrocious and gruesome crime. Art, money, fathers, sons, death, love and the transformation of France into a tourist paradise come together to create a daringly playful and original twist on the contemporary novel from a modern master of the form.

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  • "Carte et le territoire"
  • "Carte et le territorie"@it

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  • "Een succesvol fotograaf ervaart in de eerste decennia van de 21e eeuw hoezeer vergankelijkheid en schone schijn zijn leven en kunst bepalen."
  • "Having made his name with an exhibition of photographs of Michelin roadmaps - beautiful works that won praise from every corner of the art world - Jed Martin is now emerging from a ten-year hiatus. And he has had some good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward annual Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love affair with the beautiful Olga. It is that, for his new exhibition, he has secured the involvement of none other than the French novelist Michel Houellebecq. The great writer has agreed to write the text for the exhibition guide, for which he will be paid handsomely and also have his portrait painted by Jed. The exhibition - 'Professions', a series of portraits of ordinary and extraordinary people at work - brings Jed new levels of global fame. Yet his boiler is still broken, his ailing father flirts with oblivion and, worse still, he is contacted by one Inspector Jasselin, who requests his assistance in solving an unspeakable, atrocious and gruesome crime. Art, money, fathers, sons, death, love and the transformation of France into a tourist paradise come together to create a daringly playful and original twist on the contemporary novel from a modern master of the form."
  • "Having made his name with an exhibition of photographs of Michelin roadmaps - beautiful works that won praise from every corner of the art world - Jed Martin is now emerging from a ten-year hiatus. And he has had some good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward annual Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love affair with the beautiful Olga. It is that, for his new exhibition, he has secured the involvement of none other than the French novelist Michel Houellebecq. The great writer has agreed to write the text for the exhibition guide, for which he will be paid handsomely and also have his portrait painted by Jed. The exhibition - 'Professions', a series of portraits of ordinary and extraordinary people at work - brings Jed new levels of global fame. Yet his boiler is still broken, his ailing father flirts with oblivion and, worse still, he is contacted by one Inspector Jasselin, who requests his assistance in solving an unspeakable, atrocious and gruesome crime. Art, money, fathers, sons, death, love and the transformation of France into a tourist paradise come together to create a daringly playful and original twist on the contemporary novel from a modern master of the form."@en
  • "The most celebrated and controversial French novelist of our time now delivers his magnum opus?about art and money, love and friendship and death, fathers and sons. ? The Map and the Territory is the story of an artist, Jed Martin, and his family and lovers and friends, the arc of his entire history rendered with sharp humor and powerful compassion. His earliest photographs, of countless industrial objects, were followed by a surprisingly successful series featuring Michelin road maps, which also happened to bring him the love of his life, Olga, a beautiful Russian working?for a time?in Paris. But global fame and fortune arrive when he turns to painting and produces a host of portraits that capture a wide range of professions, from the commonplace (the owner of a local bar) to the autobiographical (his father, an accomplished architect) and from the celebrated (Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Discussing the Future of Information Technology) to the literary (a writer named Houellebecq, with whom he develops an unusually close relationship). ? Then, while his aging father (his only living relative) flirts with oblivion, a police inspector seeks Martin?s help in solving an unspeakably gruesome crime?events that prove profoundly unsettling. Even so, now growing old himself, Jed Martin somehow discovers serenity and manages to add another startling chapter to his artistic legacy, a deeply moving conclusion to this saga of hopes and losses and dreams."@en
  • "Jed Martin, acclaimed photographer, emerges from a ten-year hiatus, with a new exhibition -- the exhibition guide is to be written by French novelist Michel Houellebecq -- a self-referential feature that plays with the format of the novel, which seeks to entertain as well as impress."
  • "Jed Martin is an artist. The novel recounts his entire life, with particular emphasis on his 30s and 40s, his relationship with a Russian woman named Olga, his friendship with the writer Michel Houellebecq and his feelings about his father. Martin and Houellebecq meet because Houellebecq gets asked to write the catalog for Martin's biggest exhibit. The men develop a strange friendship, which is cut short when Houellebecq is savagely murdered."
  • ""Si Jed Martin, le personnage principal de ce roman devait vous en raconter l'histoire, il commencerait peut-être par vous parler d'une panne de chauffe-eau, un certain 15 décembre. Ou de son père, architecte connu et engagé, avec qui il passa seul de nombreux réveillons de Noël. Il évoquerait certainement Olga, une très jolie Russe rencontrée au début de sa carrière, lors d'une première exposition de son travail photographique à partir de cartes routières Michelin. C'était avant que le succès mondial n'arrive avec la série des 'métiers ', ces portraits de personnalités de tous milieux (dont l'écrivain Michel Houellebecq), saisis dans l'exercice de leur profession. Il devrait dire aussi comment il aida le commissaire Jasselin à élucider une atroce affaire criminelle, dont la terrifiante mise en scène marqua durablement les équipes de police. Sur la fin de sa vie il accédera à une certaine sérénité, et n'émettra plus que des murmures. L'art, l'argent, l'amour, le rapport au père, la mort, le travail, la France devenue un paradis touristique sont quelques-uns des thèmes de ce roman, résolument classique et ouvertement moderne."--P. [4] de la couv."
  • "Traces the experiences of artist Jed Martin, who rises to international success as a portrait photographer before helping to solve a heinous crime that has lasting repercussions for his loved ones--Résumé de l'éditeur."
  • "Traces the experiences of artist Jed Martin, who rises to international success as a portrait photographer before helping to solve a heinous crime that has lasting repercussions for his loved ones."@en
  • "Traces the experiences of artist Jed Martin, who rises to international success as a portrait photographer before helping to solve a heinous crime that has lasting repercussions for his loved ones."

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Verhalend proza"
  • "Translations"
  • "Translations"@he
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "French fiction"
  • "French fiction"@he
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Powieść francuska"
  • "Powieść francuska"@pl
  • "Roman français"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Francouzské romány"

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  • "Karte und Gebiet Roman"
  • "Di tu yu jiang yu = La carte et le territoire"
  • "המפה והטריטוריה"
  • "La carta e il territorio"
  • "La carta e il territorio"@it
  • "ha-Mapah ṿeha-ṭeriṭoryah"
  • "Zemljevid in ozemlje"@sl
  • "Mapa i terytorium"@pl
  • "Mapa i terytorium"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "The map and the territory"@en
  • "The map and the territory"
  • "Karta i teritorij"
  • "Karte und Gebiet : Roman"
  • "El mapa y el territorio"@es
  • "El mapa y el territorio"
  • "La carte et le territoire : roman"
  • "El mapa i el territori"
  • "El Mapa y el territorio"
  • "De kaart en het gebied"
  • "De kaart en het gebied : roman"
  • "Di tu yu jiang yu"
  • "Karta i territorija"
  • "Kortet og landskabet"
  • "Kortet og landskabet"@da
  • "Map & the Territory"@en
  • "La carte et le territorie"
  • "The Map and the Territory"@en
  • "Karta i teritorija"
  • "地图与疆域"
  • "Mapa a území"
  • "al-K̲ariṭa wa al-arḍ : riwāya"
  • "La Carte et le territoire : [roman]"
  • "Карта и территория : [роман]"
  • "De kaart en het gebied (grote letter)"
  • "El Mapa i el territori"@ca
  • "La carte et le territoire : [roman]"
  • "La carte et le territoire"
  • "La carte et le territoire roman"
  • "Ho chartēs kai hē epikrateia : mythistorēma"
  • "Karta i territorii︠a︡ : [roman]"

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