Michel Houellebecq
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Michel Houellebecq, born 26 February 1958 is a controversial and award-winning French novelist.
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Michel Houellebecq can be found behind the camera these days. He is busy with the film adaptation of Platform or is it Possiblity of an Island?. Some stills can be found on the website of Fernando Arrabal. Scarcely clad body-painted carnivalesque damsels draw the immediate attention. It has been rumored that Rem Koolhaas would design the decors. Fernando Arrabal is prominently present. --via De Papieren Man
Bibliography
Books
- Rester vivant, méthode, La Différence (1991)
- H.P. Lovecraft: Contre le monde, contre la vie (1991; Trans. as H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life by Dorna Khazeni, Intro by Stephen King, 2005), an analysis of the life and work of H. P. Lovecraft.
- La Poursuite du bonheur, poèmes, La Différence (1992)
- Extension du domaine de la lutte (1994; Trans. as Whatever by Paul Hammond, 1998)
- Le Sens du combat, poèmes, Flammarion (1996)
- Interventions, recueil d'essais, Flammarion (1998)
- Les Particules élémentaires (1998; Trans. as Atomised by Frank Wynne, 2000; published in the US as The Elementary Particles)
- Renaissance, poèmes, Flammarion (1999)
- Lanzarote - (2000, Trans. by Frank Wynne, 200?)
- Plateforme (2001; Trans. as Platform by Frank Wynne, 2002)
- La Possibilité d'une île (2005; Trans. as The Possibility of an Island by Gavin Bowd, 2006)
Articles
- "Description d'une lassitude" (2002) in Houelle 10, Paris.
- "Je crois peu en la liberté - Entretien" (1998) in Revue Perpendiculaire 11, Paris: Flammarion, p. 4-23.
- "L'homme de gauche est mal parti" (2003) in Le Figaro 6/1/03, p. 1, 13.
- "La question pédophile: Réponse" (1997) in L'Infini 59, Paris: Gallimard, pp. 96-98.
- "La privatisation du monde" (2000) in L'Atelier du roman 23, Paris, pp. 129-34.
- "Le haut langage" (1995) in La Quinzaine littéraire, 670; Paris; pp. 21-22.
- "Leonard Cohen – le libertaire impossible", (2002)
- "Michel Houellebecq répond à Perpendiculaire" (1998) in Le Monde 18/9/98
- "Neil Young" (2000) in Michka Assayas (ed.) Dictionnaire du rock, Paris: Robert Laffont.
- "Préface" in Toni Ungerer (2001) Erotoscope, Paris: Éditions Taschen.
- "Préface: L'Humanité, second stade" (1998) in Solanas, Valerie: Scum Manifesto, Paris: Éditions Mille et une nuits, pp. 63-69.
- "Préface: Préliminaires au positivisme" (2003) in Bourdeau, Braunstein & Petit (eds.): Auguste Comte aujourd'hui, Paris: Éditions Kimé, pp. 7-12.
- "Préface: Renoncer à l'intelligence" (1991) in Gourmont, Remy de: L'Odeur des jacinthes, Paris: Orphée/La Différence, pp. 7-20.
- "Un monde sans direction" (1996) in La Quinzaine littéraire, 700; Paris; pp. 8-9.
- "Wilde Flucht" (2000) in Tageszeitung Berlin, 30/10/00.
Films
- Cristal de souffrance (1978)
- Déséquilibre (1982)
- La Rivière (2001) Canal +
- La Possibilité d'une île (TBD)
CDs
- Le Sens du combat (1996) Paris: Les Poétiques de France Culture.
- Présence humaine (2000) Paris : Tricatel.
Published in collaboration
- Barry, Judith; Convert, Pascal & Pfnür, Rainer (eds.) (1993) "Genius Loci", Paris: La Différence.
- Breillat, Catherine (ed.) (1999) "Le livre du plaisir", Paris: Éditions 1.
- Div. (1995) "Objet Perdu: fictions – Idées – Images", Paris: Lachenal et Ritter & Parc Éditions.
- Hegemann, Claus (ed.) (2000) "Kapitalismus und Depression II: Glück ohne Ende", Berlin: Alexander Verlag.
- Noguez, Dominique (ed.) (2002) "Balade en Seine-et-Marne: Sur les pas des écrivains", Paris: Éditions Alexandrines.
- Ruff, Thomas & Houellebecq, Michel (2002) "Nudes", München: Walther König.
- Wiame, Sarah & Houellebecq, Michel (1993) "La Peau", Paris: Sarah Wiame.
- Wiame, Sarah & Houellebecq, Michel (1995) "La Ville", Paris: Sarah Wiame.
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