All the novels. All erased.
Without God: Michel Houellebecq and materialist horror
β Scribed by Betty, Louis;Houellebecq, Michel
- Publisher
- The Pennsylvania State University Press
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 154 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- University Park, Pennsylvania
- ISBN
- 027107809X
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β¦ Synopsis
"Addresses the religious, metaphysical, and existential dimensions of French novelist Michel Houellebecq's work. Argues that Houellebecq is the foremost contemporary chronicler of the spiritual anxieties of Western and specifically French modernity"--Provided by publisher;Introduction : the Houellebecquian worldview -- Materialism and secularism -- The future of religion -- Religion and utopia -- Materialist horror -- Liberalism is God and the West is its prophet.
β¦ Subjects
Houellebecq, Michel
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