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Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair (Continuum Literary Studies) by Carole Sweeney [Sweeney, Carole] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Widely acknowledged as an important, if highly controversial, figure in contemporary literature, French novelist and poet Michel Houellebecq has elicited diverse critical responses. In this book Carole Sweeney examines his novels as a response to the advance of neoliberalism into all areas of affective human life. This historicizing study argues that __le monde houellebecquien__ is an ‘atomised society' of banal quotidian alienation populated by quietly resentful men who are the botched subjects of late-capitalism. Addressing Houellebecq's handling of the ‘failure' of the radical thought of ‘68, Sweeney looks at the ways in which his fiction treats feminism, the decline of religion and the family, as well as the obsolescence of French ‘theory' and the Sartrean notion of ‘engaged' literature. Reading the world with the disappointed idealism of a contemporary moralist, Houellebecq's novels, Sweeney argues, fluctuate between despair for the world as it is and a limp utopian hope for a post-humanity.

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Author

Carole Sweeney [Sweeney, Carole]

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474239134

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction