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Houellebecq, Michel

Overview
Works: 241 works in 855 publications in 35 languages and 13,079 library holdings
Genres: Humorous fiction  Science fiction  Adaptation  Humorous stories  Domestic fiction  French fiction 
Roles: Author of introduction, Editor, Bibliographic antecedent, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Interviewee, Author of dialog, Adapter, Creator, Performer, Lyricist, Director, Scenarist, Film editor, Narrator
Classifications: pq2668.o77, 843.914
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Most widely held works by Michel Houellebecq
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93 editions published between and 2010 in 20 languages and held by 1,290 libraries worldwide
Follows the lives and fortunes of Bruno and Marcel, born to a bohemian mother during the 1960s, who are brought up separately and pursue their own individual paths-as Bruno battles madness and sexual obsession and Michel, a molecular biologist, comes up with a unique way to express his disgust with the violence of humankind.
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61 editions published between and 2009 in 20 languages and held by 1,140 libraries worldwide
A future world in which humankind as we know it has vanished is seen through the eyes of Daniel, a writer who has made a fortune with his comedies capturing the follies and foibles of humankind, and his subsequent clones.
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76 editions published between and 2011 in 13 languages and held by 670 libraries worldwide
A French novel about a fake nihilist. He is a computer engineer from Paris who at thirty is so blasé he cannot be bothered to woo a woman, yet he longs for sex. The novel was a bestseller in France.
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42 editions published between and 2009 in 11 languages and held by 654 libraries worldwide
Analyse : Roman de société.
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30 editions published between and 2011 in 12 languages and held by 643 libraries worldwide
A bureaucrat with a preference for pre-packaged goods, Michel Renault travels to Thailand where he begins to gain a taste for the exotic and sensual, an interest that draws him into an intense love affair with Valerie.
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6 editions published between and 2008 in English and held by 423 libraries worldwide
Presents an essay on the literary horror writer, HP Lovecraft. This book includes two Lovecraft stories and an introduction by Stephen King. This book illuminates both Lovecraft and Houellebecq's own work. It outlines Lovecraft's rejection of the world, infusing the writing with an energy and passion that characterises the author's novel.
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4 editions published in in English and held by 412 libraries worldwide
What begins as an exchange between bitter enemies evolves into a joint personal meditation among France's premier literary and philosophical live wires on their lives, their writing, and what it means to think.
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23 editions published between and 2007 in 9 languages and held by 296 libraries worldwide
I en lille kassette ligger to tynde bind. En tekst, der beskriver en chartertur til Lanzarote, gennemsyret af fortællerens negative forventninger og holdninger til både natur og mennesker og et bind med forfatterens fantastisk smukke "feriebilleder"....
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5 editions published between and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 233 libraries worldwide
Jed Martin is an artist. The novel recounts his entire life, with particular emphasis on his 30s and 40s, his relationship with a Russian woman named Olga, his friendship with the writer Michel Houellebecq and his feelings about his father. Martin and Houellebecq meet because Houellebecq gets asked to write the catalog for Martin's biggest exhibit. The men develop a strange friendship, which is cut short when Houellebecq is savagely murdered.
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20 editions published between and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 181 libraries worldwide
Correspondance.
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15 editions published between and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 150 libraries worldwide
Un éloge du cinéma muet, de la connerie de Jacques Prévert ou du salon de la vidéo hot, mais aussi de l'art contemporain et de la création littéraire : ce recueil comprend des textes publiés notamment dans "Les Lettres nouvelles", " Les Inrockuptibles" , "Art Press" et le livret d' "Opera bianca" , oeuvre présentée au Centre Pompidou en septembre 1997.
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19 editions published between and 2010 in French and German and held by 149 libraries worldwide
L'auteur salue dans l'oeuvre de Lovecraft un mythe fondateur. Il lui rend hommage, l'admirant de s'être situé dans cet "ailleurs absolu" cher à Einstein et Jacques Bergier, et propose un plaidoyer pour une littérature vertigineuse, "juxtaposition du minutieux et de l'illimité, du ponctuel et de l'infini".
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16 editions published between and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 149 libraries worldwide
De la poésie noire, à l'écart des douleurs quotidiennes, qui déblaye les scories d'un optimisme creux.
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5 editions published in in English and German and held by 146 libraries worldwide
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9 editions published between and 2005 in French and German and held by 145 libraries worldwide
Des "poèmes de survie", remplis d'éclairs sauvages, de férocité et de musique.
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9 editions published in in French and Spanish and held by 104 libraries worldwide
Un récit de voyage aux Canaries à la première personne, sur fond de tour-opérateurs, de sexe et de soleil. Le narrateur, solitaire et désabusé, tente de tirer profit de sa semaine de vacances. L'auteur confronte les quelques gesticulations des représentants de la race humaine à la minéralité intemporelle des paysages. Le texte est ici accompagné d'un album de photographies.
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16 editions published between and 2005 in French and German and held by 85 libraries worldwide
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8 editions published between and 2006 in French and held by 77 libraries worldwide
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7 editions published between and 2001 in French and held by 77 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published in in French and held by 68 libraries worldwide
Essai.
 
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Alternative Names
Michel, Thomas
Thomas, Michel, 1958-
Uėlʹbek, Mišelʹ, 1958-
Уэльбек, Мишель
וולבק, מישל
Уэльбек, Мишель
וולבק, מישל
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