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Submission by Michel Houellebecq
$43.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous living literary figureIt's 2022. Francois is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century Decadent author. But Francois's own decadenc ...Show more
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a near-future France, Fran ois, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession - the ideas and works of the nineteenth-century novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans - has led him nowhere. In a late-capitalis ...Show more
The Art of Struggle by Michel Houellebecq
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Notorious as a novelist, Michel Houellebecq was first known in France as a poet. In many ways it is through poetry that he found his novelist's voice. "The Sense of the Struggle" is a collection of prose and verse pieces which investigate issues of alienation, individualism and disillusionment - themes ...Show more
The Elementary Particles by Houellebecq Michel
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel-part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence. Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drug ...Show more
The Map And The Territory by Michel Houellebecq
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
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.
The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq
$32.50 AUD
Category: Fiction
The most celebrated and controversial French novelist of our time delivers a riveting masterpiece about art and money, love and friendship, and fathers and sons. Jed Martin is an artist. His first photographs feature Michelin road maps, and global success arrives with his series on professions: portrait ...Show more
The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward 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 th ...Show more
The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Who is it among you who deserves eternal life?' Houellebecq's dazzling new novel, which moves between Paris, Andalucia and Lanzarote, is a thought-provoking, shocking and ultimately moving examination of the modern world. Daniel is a successful stand-up comedian who has built his reputation on ...Show more
The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Who, among you, deserves eternal life? Daniel is a highly successful stand-up comedian who has made a career out of playing outrageously on the prejudices of his public. But at the beginning of the twenty-first century, he has begun to detest laughter in particular and mankind in general. Despite this, ...Show more
Unreconciled by Michel Houellebecq
$45.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Selected poems from the critically acclaimed author of Atomised and Submission Dual-language edition This selection of poems chosen from four collections shines a fresh light on Michel Houellebecq and emphasises the radical singularity of his work. Drawing on similar themes as his novels, Unreconciled i ...Show more
Whatever by Michel Houellebecq; Paul Hammond (Translator); Toby Litt (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
"Houellebecq captures precisely the cynical disillusionment of disaffected youth."--Booklist "This boy needs serious therapy. He may be beyond help."--The Washington Post Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny, and ...Show more
Whatever by Michel Houellebecq
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A portrayal of the vanishing freedom of a world governed by science and by the empty rituals of daily life.