Book Review: The Map and the Territory

Michel Houellebecq was so confused he put himself in as a principal character in this book.

What's the appeal of literary fiction?

Especially if you get all the way through the book and have no idea what's going on!

It's perhaps a stereotype that great artists are tortured souls. Here's a murky book by a quirky novelist. And it's fascinating, even if I don't quite understand it all.

Here's my review of The Map and the Territory by contemporary French novelist Michel Houellebecq.

This author is unabashedly and unashamedly literary and intellectual. Those of us on this side of the pond who fret about novels and commercialism and fads and attention spans and the general lack of receptiveness for ideas can only envy the opportunity to wax philosophical and not only get away with it, but also actually sell books.

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