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Weird philosophical story about a man who joins a cult. With POV of the present and future of the same character. Cloning and romance involved. I think the author was Spanish. Quite depressing and magical.
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Feb 08, 2020 09:44PM
It was a pretty rare book for what I usually read; I found it once on a trip and read it in a week. It was quite interesting and different but for some blessed reason I don't remember the name. It was about a guy with an acidic and strange attitude, who falls in love with a woman and then ends up joining a strange cult. The story of the book goes in the present time of the events and also jumps to the future; in the future there is a plot about cloning and how humanity is almost extinct.
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The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
“set within a cloning cult”
“There are three main characters - Daniel and two of his clones.
Daniel is a successful comedian who can't seem to enjoy life despite his wealth. He gets bored with his hedonist lifestyle, but can't escape from it either. In the meanwhile he is disgruntled with the state of current society, and philosophizes about the nature of sex and love.
His two clones live an uneventful life as hermits, in a post-apocalyptic future. They live in a time where the human species is on its last legs (or, alternatively, on its first legs, as they have returned to societies of hunter-gatherer tribes), destroyed by climate change and nuclear war. The two clones are confronted with the life of the first Daniel and have different views about their predecessor. Scattered around are the remnants of tourist resorts, cities and consumer items and some natural humans living in small tribes without any knowledge of the past or of civilization.”
“set within a cloning cult”
“There are three main characters - Daniel and two of his clones.
Daniel is a successful comedian who can't seem to enjoy life despite his wealth. He gets bored with his hedonist lifestyle, but can't escape from it either. In the meanwhile he is disgruntled with the state of current society, and philosophizes about the nature of sex and love.
His two clones live an uneventful life as hermits, in a post-apocalyptic future. They live in a time where the human species is on its last legs (or, alternatively, on its first legs, as they have returned to societies of hunter-gatherer tribes), destroyed by climate change and nuclear war. The two clones are confronted with the life of the first Daniel and have different views about their predecessor. Scattered around are the remnants of tourist resorts, cities and consumer items and some natural humans living in small tribes without any knowledge of the past or of civilization.”
