- Alienation (Social psychology), Fiction, Computer engineers, Romance literature
"Ever found yourself all at sea at work? Suffered from information overload?" "If you have, Houellebecq's grim, funny and clever tongue-in-cheek exploration of corporate jargon, psychobabble and the ineffectual use of long words is for you."
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Contemporary, cool, contemplative and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Michel Houellebecq
- First published
- October 2001
- Pages
- 169
- Publisher
- European Book Co, Reclam, Ditzingen, Anagrama
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- cat, German, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9783803140470
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“Friday evening I was invited to a party at a colleague from work's house.”
Michel Thomas, dit Michel Houellebecq est un écrivain, poète, essayiste et acteur français né le 26 février 1956 à Saint-Pierre (La Réunion). Il est révélé par les romans *Extension du domaine de la lutte* (1994) et surtout *Les Particules élémentaires* (1998), qui le fait connaître d'un large public. Ce dernier roman et son livre suivant *Plateforme* (2001) sont considérés comme précurseurs dans la littérature française, notamment pour leur description de la misère affective et sexuelle de l'homme occidental dans les années 1990 et 2000. Avec *La Carte et le Territoire,* Michel Houellebecq reçoit le prix Goncourt en 2010, après avoir été plusieurs fois pressenti pour ce prix. Son œuvre est
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