Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecqis a French author, filmmaker, and poet. Having written poetry and a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, he published his first novel, Whatever, in 1994. Atomised followed in 1998, and Platform in 2001. He published a book of poems, The Art of Struggle, in 1996. After a publicity tour for Platform led to his being taken to court for inciting racial hatred, he moved to Ireland to write for several years. He currently resides in...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth26 February 1956
CountryFrance
The triumph of vegetation is total.
Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.
Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.
In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.
Polemical debates happen all the time in France.
My novels are all ideas.
There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.
I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.
Islam is a dangerous religion.
The most stupid religion is Islam.
Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction comes close to pedantry, probably a result of boredom. A creature that is bored elaborates distinctions and hierarchies. According to Hutchinson and Rawlins, the development of systems of hierarchical dominance within animal societies does not correspond to any practical necessity, nor to any selective advantage; it simply constitutes a means of combating the crushing boredom of life in the heart of nature.
Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity.