A French novel about a fake nihilist. He is a computer engineer from Paris who at thirty is so blase he cannot be bothered to woo a woman, yet he longs for sex. The novel was a bestseller in France.
"Novel about a fake nihilist. He is a computer engineer from Paris who at thirty is so blasé he cannot be bothered to woo a woman, yet he longs for sex."
"A French novel about a fake nihilist. He is a computer engineer from Paris who at thirty is so blase he cannot be bothered to woo a woman, yet he longs for sex. The novel was a bestseller in France."@en
"A French novel about a fake nihilist. He is a computer engineer from Paris who at thirty is so blase he cannot be bothered to woo a woman, yet he longs for sex. The novel was a bestseller in France."
"Sa vie est une succession des déceptions banales, les repères sociaux s'effritent, il va perdre son emploi, il ne trouve pas de femme, l'enfance est finie.Au dessus de lui il sent grandir l'aile sombre de la déception., l'apprentissage du dégoût."
""Not everyone can be a hero in the sexual revolution. Take our hero a moderately successful computer programmer who is sent around France to teach company personel the latest IT systems, partnered with Raphael. After a romantic assault on the opposite sex in a Rouen nightclub ends in hopeless failure, the two men decide that the time has come for the sexual underclass to fight back ..." [cover box note from video]."
"Sein erster heftig umstrittener Roman, mit dem er bereits zu Weltruhm gelangte und nicht nur in Frankreich die Öffentlichkeit polarisierte: Michel Houellebecq beschreibt die um Liebe reduzierte erotische Kampfzone der modernen Welt. Kaum je hat ein Autor in der französischen Öffentlichkeit ein solches von leidenschaftlichen Diskussionen begleitetes Echo gefunden wie Michel Houellebecq mit seinem ersten Roman. Es wurde in Windeseile zum Kultbuch, rückhaltlos gepriesen und wütend geschmäht. Heute gilt es vielen als Houellebecqs bestes Buch, sein Titel ist bereits zum Sprichwort geworden. Ein junger Informatiker, der für eine Pariser Software- Firma arbeitet, ist der Held der in einem straff gespannten Bogen erzählten Handlung. Seine betriebsame, aber kommunikationslose Umgebung versteht er meisterhaft zu sezieren. Dann unternimmt er eine Dienstreise in die Provinz, gemeinsam mit einem ebenso erotomanischen wie verklemmten Kollegen, einer Verkörperung all jener Eigenschaften, die er an seinen Mitmenschen verachtet. Am Weihnachtsabend, in einer Diskothek, drückt er ihm ein Messer in die Hand . . . Michel Houellebecq wurde 1958 in La Réunion geboren. Er veröffentlichte Gedichtbände und Essays, bevor er mit dem umstrittenen Roman "Die Ausweitung der Kampfzone" debütierte. Für dieses Buch wurde er mit dem Grand prix national des lettres und dem Prix Flore für den besten Erstlingsroman ausgezeichnet. Houellebecq schrieb zahlreiche weitere Romane, lebte in Irland und Lanzarote und heute wieder in Paris."
"A novel about a fake nihilist who is a computer engineer from Paris and, at thirty, is so blasé he cannot be botherered to woo a woman, yet he longs for sex."
"Premier roman (hybride) d'un poète de grand talent. L'oeuvre, dans sa partie la plus facilement descriptible, est une dénonciation du libéralisme économique et du libéralisme sexuel (d'où le titre), une critique de l'individualisme forcené, et une mise en garde contre l'effacement progressif des relations humaines (cf. p. 42). Inégal, mais attachant et donnant à réfléchir. [SDM]."
""Just thirty, with a well-paid job, no love life and a bad attitude, the anti-hero of Whatever smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by trade, he is tolerably content, until he's packed off with a colleague to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system."--P. [4] of cover."
"A French novel about a fake nihilist. He is a computer engineer from Paris who at thirty is so blasé he cannot be bothered to woo a woman, yet he longs for sex. The novel was a bestseller in France."@en
"Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until, that is, he's packed off with a colleague - the unimaginably ugly, sexually-frustrated virgin Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system ... A painfully realistic portrayal of the vanishing freedom of a world governed by science and by the empty rituals of da."@en
"Een dertigjarige informaticus beseft allengs gevangen te zitten in zichzelf en het levensdoel gemist te hebben."
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