Anti-Matter Quotes

“The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity – which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are,”
― Ben Jeffery, Anti-Matter: Michel Houellebecq and Depressive Realism

“Postmodernism could be interpreted as the dismissal of this possibility. There is no authenticity, only various preferences.”
― Ben Jeffery, Anti-Matter: Michel Houellebecq and Depressive Realism

“Novelists encounter a world not only overloaded with information but overloaded with novels, possibly overloaded with novels confronting the overload of information. On an immediate social level, the enormity of published work has the effect of isolating readers. The general dispersal of culture into fragmented and miscellaneous units in the information-age has a more pronounced effect on literature, if only because novels typically take longer to read than films take to watch or albums take to listen to. It takes comparatively more effort to know about the same things, therefore it’s less common. The upshot is that it is more difficult to get the kind of basic social-reinforcement around literature that merges individual interests into a scene or community that people want to belong to, which is one of the main reasons it’s now such a challenge for writers to fix coordinates for their work.”
― Ben Jeffery, Anti-Matter: Michel Houellebecq and Depressive Realism

“No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with life.”
― Ben Jeffery, Anti-Matter: Michel Houellebecq and Depressive Realism