Michel Houellebecq's novel Platform opens with the sentence, "Father died last year." A reference to which existentialist classic?
a. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
b. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
c. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
d. The Stranger by Albert Camus
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a. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
b. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
c. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
d. The Stranger by Albert Camus
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Michel Houellebecq
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February 26, 1958
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Michel Houellebecq (born Michel Thomas), born 26 February 1958 (birth certificate) or 1956 on the French island of Réunion, is a controversial and award-winning French novelist. To admirers he is a writer in the tradition of literary provocation that reaches back to the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire; to detractors he is a peddler of sleaze and shock. Having written poetry and a biography of the horror writer H P Lovecraft he brought out his first novel Extension du domaine de la lutte in 1994. Les particules élémentaires followed in 1998 and Plateform , in 2001. After a disastrous publicity tour for this book , which led to his being taken to court for inciting racial hatred, he went to Ireland to write.
He currently lives in Spain...more
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"The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die."
— Michel Houellebecq
— Michel Houellebecq
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"Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit. All that exists is a magnificent interweaving, vast and reciprocal."
— Michel Houellebecq (Atomised)
— Michel Houellebecq (Atomised)
"Few beings have ever been so impregnated, pierced to the core, by the conviction of the absolute futility of human aspiration. The universe is nothing but a furtive arrangement of elementary particles. A figure in transition toward chaos. That is what will finally prevail. The human race will disappear. Other races in turn will appear and disappear. And human actions are as free and as stripped of meaning as the unfettered movements of the elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, sentiments? Pure ‘Victorian fictions.’ All that exists is egotism. Cold, intact, and radiant."
— Michel Houellebecq
— Michel Houellebecq
