Houellebecq, Michel
Overview
| Works: | 521 works in 2,218 publications in 25 languages and 27,495 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Criticism, interpretation, etc Psychological fiction Political fiction Humorous fiction Records and correspondence Science fiction Biographical fiction Satire Detective and mystery fiction |
| Roles: | Author, Actor, Author of introduction, Contributor, Bibliographic antecedent, Editor, Interviewee, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Creator, Author of dialog, Performer, Adapter, Photographer, Director, Author of screenplay, 080, Narrator, dir, Lyricist, Musician, Scenarist, Film editor, Other |
| Classifications: | PQ2668.O77, 843.914 |
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Most widely held works about
Michel Houellebecq
- Michel Houellebecq à la Une by Murielle Lucie Clément( )
- Michel Houellebecq sous la loupe by Murielle Lucie Clément( )
- Michel Houellebecq : humanity and its aftermath by Douglas Morrey( )
- Without God : Michel Houellebecq and materialist horror by Louis Betty( )
- Michel Houellebecq : author of our times by John McCann( )
- Submission by Michel Houellebecq : book analysis by Chloé De Smet( )
- Fin de millénaire French fiction : the aesthetics of crisis by Ruth Cruickshank( Book )
- An Officer of Civilization The Poetics of Michel Houellebecq by Nurit Buchweitz( )
- The coming of the body by Hervé Juvin( Book )
- Nihilism by Bülent Diken( Book )
- Contemporary literary criticism. Volume 179 by Janet Witalec( )
- Michel Houellebecq revisité : l'écriture houellebecquienne by Murielle Lucie Clément( Book )
- Ennemis publics by Michel Houellebecq( Book )
- Michel Houellebecq and the literature of despair by Carole Sweeney( Book )
- Les tiroirs de Michel Houellebecq by Bruno Viard( Book )
- Michel Houellebecq : le plaisir du texte by Sabine van Wesemael( Book )
- Houellebecq économiste by Bernard Maris( Book )
- Écarts de la modernité : le roman français de Sartre à Houellebecq by Sabine Hillen( Book )
- Houellebecq, en fait by Dominique Noguez( Book )
- Houellebecq, sperme et sang by Murielle Lucie Clément( Book )
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Michel Houellebecq
The elementary particles by
Michel Houellebecq(
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204 editions published between 1998 and 2017 in 13 languages and held by 2,411 WorldCat member 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
204 editions published between 1998 and 2017 in 13 languages and held by 2,411 WorldCat member 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
The map and the territory by
Michel Houellebecq(
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94 editions published between 2010 and 2017 in 9 languages and held by 2,047 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Traces the experiences of artist Jed Martin, who rises to international success as a portrait photographer before helping to solve a heinous crime that has lasting repercussions for his loved ones
94 editions published between 2010 and 2017 in 9 languages and held by 2,047 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Traces the experiences of artist Jed Martin, who rises to international success as a portrait photographer before helping to solve a heinous crime that has lasting repercussions for his loved ones
Submission by
Michel Houellebecq(
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78 editions published between 2014 and 2017 in 12 languages and held by 1,984 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In a near-future France, François, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession--the ideas and works of the novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans--has led him nowhere. In a late-capitalist society where consumerism has become the new religion, François is spiritually barren, but seeking to fill the vacuum of his existence. And he is not alone. As the 2022 Presidential election approaches, two candidates emerge as favorites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and Muhammed Ben Abbes of the nascent Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the mainstream parties, Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed. Islamic law comes into force: women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged and, for François, life is set on a new course
78 editions published between 2014 and 2017 in 12 languages and held by 1,984 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In a near-future France, François, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession--the ideas and works of the novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans--has led him nowhere. In a late-capitalist society where consumerism has become the new religion, François is spiritually barren, but seeking to fill the vacuum of his existence. And he is not alone. As the 2022 Presidential election approaches, two candidates emerge as favorites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and Muhammed Ben Abbes of the nascent Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the mainstream parties, Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed. Islamic law comes into force: women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged and, for François, life is set on a new course
The possibility of an island by
Michel Houellebecq(
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119 editions published between 2005 and 2017 in 10 languages and held by 1,689 WorldCat member 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
119 editions published between 2005 and 2017 in 10 languages and held by 1,689 WorldCat member 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
Platform : a novel by
Michel Houellebecq(
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125 editions published between 2001 and 2017 in 16 languages and held by 1,581 WorldCat member 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
125 editions published between 2001 and 2017 in 16 languages and held by 1,581 WorldCat member 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
Extension du domaine de la lutte : roman by
Michel Houellebecq(
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97 editions published between 1994 and 2016 in French and English and held by 544 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Analyse : Roman de société
97 editions published between 1994 and 2016 in French and English and held by 544 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Analyse : Roman de société
Whatever : a novel by
Michel Houellebecq(
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17 editions published between 1998 and 2013 in English and Spanish and held by 497 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A French novel about a fake nihilist. He is a computer engineer from Paris who at thirty is so blase he cannot be bothered to woo a woman, yet he longs for sex. The novel was a bestseller in France
17 editions published between 1998 and 2013 in English and Spanish and held by 497 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A French novel about a fake nihilist. He is a computer engineer from Paris who at thirty is so blase he cannot be bothered to woo a woman, yet he longs for sex. The novel was a bestseller in France
Public enemies : dueling writers take on each other and the world by
Bernard-Henri Lévy(
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7 editions published between 2011 and 2012 in English and held by 482 WorldCat member 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
7 editions published between 2011 and 2012 in English and held by 482 WorldCat member 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
H.P. Lovecraft : against the world, against life by
Michel Houellebecq(
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12 editions published between 2005 and 2008 in English and held by 442 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
H.P. Lovecraft, the radical, misanthropic master of the horror genre, now has an impassioned advocate in Michel Houellebecq, Europe's most controversial modern novelst. In his illuminating appraisal of Lovecraft's life and work, Houellebecq reveals a surprising debt to the master of weird fiction
12 editions published between 2005 and 2008 in English and held by 442 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
H.P. Lovecraft, the radical, misanthropic master of the horror genre, now has an impassioned advocate in Michel Houellebecq, Europe's most controversial modern novelst. In his illuminating appraisal of Lovecraft's life and work, Houellebecq reveals a surprising debt to the master of weird fiction
Interventions by
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23 editions published between 1998 and 2009 in French and Spanish and held by 303 WorldCat member 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
23 editions published between 1998 and 2009 in French and Spanish and held by 303 WorldCat member 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
L'enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq by
Guillaume Nicloux(
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8 editions published between 2014 and 2015 in French and held by 201 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Michel Houellebecq, possibly the most widely read living French writer, was believed kidnapped on September 16, 2011. But was he really? After a flurry of media reports of his abduction, the story goes cold and Michel, famously reclusive, refuses to set the record straight"--Container
8 editions published between 2014 and 2015 in French and held by 201 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Michel Houellebecq, possibly the most widely read living French writer, was believed kidnapped on September 16, 2011. But was he really? After a flurry of media reports of his abduction, the story goes cold and Michel, famously reclusive, refuses to set the record straight"--Container
H.P. Lovecraft : contre le monde, contre la vie by
Michel Houellebecq(
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33 editions published between 1991 and 2014 in French and Undetermined and held by 195 WorldCat member 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."
33 editions published between 1991 and 2014 in French and Undetermined and held by 195 WorldCat member 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."
Nudes by
Thomas Ruff(
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19 editions published in 2003 in 4 languages and held by 170 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present two exhibitions of new and recent photographs by Thomas Ruff. This is his first exhibition with the gallery.Ruff's body of work testifies to the wealth of practices, objects and forms available to photographers today. He has been testing the limits of his medium for more than two decades, producing photographs in series with subjects that range from domestic interiors to the planets, from modernist architecture to abstract psychedelia, from specific portraits to generic internet pornography. The tools and techniques that he has investigated thus far include a composite picture-making apparatus, star light system for night-vision, hand-tinting, stereoscopy, digital retouching, and photomontage. He has appropriated images from various sources including scientific archives, newspapers, and, more recently, the internet.Astronomy has fascinated Ruff since childhood. In 1989 he presented Sterne, his first images of the night sky based on archival photographs that he acquired from the European Southern Observatory in Chile that were taken with a specially designed telescopic lens. From these photographs, he selected specific details that were then enlarged to a uniform grand scale. Almost twenty years later, he returned to contemplating the universe and its mysteries via the public Internet archive of NASA. The cassini series of 2008 was based on photographic captures of Saturn with its candy-colored moons and rings. Ruff enlarged the images to the point where the image resolution meets its limit and the planet starts to crumble, pixel by pixel into the black void of the galaxy. In the new ma.r.s. series, also sourced from the NASA website, Ruff has transformed the raw black and white fragmentary representations of the planet Mars with interjections of saturated color, such as the blood-red atmospheric haze of ma.r.s. 01_III (2011) or the steel-gray striations of ma.r.s. 02_II (2011). In addition to the large C-prints, he has experimented for the first time with 3D image-making to extraordinary effect, and several are presented here that can be viewed with or without viewing glasses.In 2003 Ruff produced the first nudes, culling images from Internet pornography, then digitally processing them—enlarging them as far as possible—so as to cloud the crude clarity of the original images. For this exhibition, Ruff has created a series of unique monumental works, enlarged to an imposing scale while, conversely, the rawness and carnality of the original images is blurred to an innuendo. Images such as nudes dr02 (2011) become painterly illustrations of vague desire in which anonymous women sport and pose, their erotic power modified by a muted palette and hazed resolution, while in nudes ar09 (2011) the fetishistic power of the female subject is all but reduced to lush formal qualities—a cascade of thick blonde hair, the curve of pink thighs, the glossy black of a stiletto heel
19 editions published in 2003 in 4 languages and held by 170 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present two exhibitions of new and recent photographs by Thomas Ruff. This is his first exhibition with the gallery.Ruff's body of work testifies to the wealth of practices, objects and forms available to photographers today. He has been testing the limits of his medium for more than two decades, producing photographs in series with subjects that range from domestic interiors to the planets, from modernist architecture to abstract psychedelia, from specific portraits to generic internet pornography. The tools and techniques that he has investigated thus far include a composite picture-making apparatus, star light system for night-vision, hand-tinting, stereoscopy, digital retouching, and photomontage. He has appropriated images from various sources including scientific archives, newspapers, and, more recently, the internet.Astronomy has fascinated Ruff since childhood. In 1989 he presented Sterne, his first images of the night sky based on archival photographs that he acquired from the European Southern Observatory in Chile that were taken with a specially designed telescopic lens. From these photographs, he selected specific details that were then enlarged to a uniform grand scale. Almost twenty years later, he returned to contemplating the universe and its mysteries via the public Internet archive of NASA. The cassini series of 2008 was based on photographic captures of Saturn with its candy-colored moons and rings. Ruff enlarged the images to the point where the image resolution meets its limit and the planet starts to crumble, pixel by pixel into the black void of the galaxy. In the new ma.r.s. series, also sourced from the NASA website, Ruff has transformed the raw black and white fragmentary representations of the planet Mars with interjections of saturated color, such as the blood-red atmospheric haze of ma.r.s. 01_III (2011) or the steel-gray striations of ma.r.s. 02_II (2011). In addition to the large C-prints, he has experimented for the first time with 3D image-making to extraordinary effect, and several are presented here that can be viewed with or without viewing glasses.In 2003 Ruff produced the first nudes, culling images from Internet pornography, then digitally processing them—enlarging them as far as possible—so as to cloud the crude clarity of the original images. For this exhibition, Ruff has created a series of unique monumental works, enlarged to an imposing scale while, conversely, the rawness and carnality of the original images is blurred to an innuendo. Images such as nudes dr02 (2011) become painterly illustrations of vague desire in which anonymous women sport and pose, their erotic power modified by a muted palette and hazed resolution, while in nudes ar09 (2011) the fetishistic power of the female subject is all but reduced to lush formal qualities—a cascade of thick blonde hair, the curve of pink thighs, the glossy black of a stiletto heel
De kaart en het gebied : roman by
Michel Houellebecq(
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7 editions published between 2011 and 2016 in Dutch and held by 165 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Een succesvol fotograaf ervaart in de eerste decennia van de 21e eeuw hoezeer vergankelijkheid en schone schijn zijn leven en kunst bepalen
7 editions published between 2011 and 2016 in Dutch and held by 165 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Een succesvol fotograaf ervaart in de eerste decennia van de 21e eeuw hoezeer vergankelijkheid en schone schijn zijn leven en kunst bepalen
Renaissance by
Michel Houellebecq(
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9 editions published in 1999 in French and held by 150 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Des "poèmes de survie", remplis d'éclairs sauvages, de férocité et de musique
9 editions published in 1999 in French and held by 150 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Des "poèmes de survie", remplis d'éclairs sauvages, de férocité et de musique
Onderworpen by
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5 editions published between 2015 and 2016 in Dutch and French and held by 145 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In Frankrijk komt de Moslimbroederschap aan de macht en keert het maatschappelijke bestel ondersteboven
5 editions published between 2015 and 2016 in Dutch and French and held by 145 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In Frankrijk komt de Moslimbroederschap aan de macht en keert het maatschappelijke bestel ondersteboven
Configuration du dernier rivage by
Michel Houellebecq(
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8 editions published between 2013 and 2014 in French and German and held by 137 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Configuration du dernier rivage est composé d'une centaine de poèmes, recueillis en cinq parties
8 editions published between 2013 and 2014 in French and German and held by 137 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Configuration du dernier rivage est composé d'une centaine de poèmes, recueillis en cinq parties
La poursuite du bonheur by
Michel Houellebecq(
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34 editions published between 1991 and 2015 in French and held by 133 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of poems centred on the theme of the pursuit of happiness
34 editions published between 1991 and 2015 in French and held by 133 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of poems centred on the theme of the pursuit of happiness
The art of struggle by
Michel Houellebecq(
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12 editions published between 1996 and 2010 in French and English and held by 119 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
De la poésie noire, à l'écart des douleurs quotidiennes, qui déblaye les scories d'un optimisme creux
12 editions published between 1996 and 2010 in French and English and held by 119 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
De la poésie noire, à l'écart des douleurs quotidiennes, qui déblaye les scories d'un optimisme creux
Ennemis publics by
Michel Houellebecq(
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17 editions published between 2008 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 117 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Dans cette correspondance janvier-juillet 2008 entre l'auteur des Particules élémentaires et le romancier et philosophe B.-H. Lévy, les deux hommes évoquent des questions intimes, intellectuelles et de sociétés
17 editions published between 2008 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 117 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Dans cette correspondance janvier-juillet 2008 entre l'auteur des Particules élémentaires et le romancier et philosophe B.-H. Lévy, les deux hommes évoquent des questions intimes, intellectuelles et de sociétés
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- Clément, Murielle Lucie Author Editor
- Wesemael, Sabine van Author Editor
- Wynne, Frank Translator
- Bowd, Gavin 1966- Translator
- Stein, Lorin Translator
- Morrey, Douglas Author
- Lévy, Bernard-Henri Author
- Haan, Martin de 1966- Author of afterword, colophon, etc. Performer Translator Author
- Betty, Louis Author
- McCann, John 1956- Author
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Aging Alienation (Social psychology) Angot, Christine Authors, French Brothers Capitalism Cloning Computer engineers Cults Detective and mystery stories Echenoz, Jean Extinction (Biology) Fantasy fiction, American France France--Paris French fiction French literature Houellebecq, Michel Human body (Philosophy) Human body--Social aspects Human cloning Kidnapping Lévy, Bernard-Henri Longevity--Social aspects Lovecraft, H. P.--(Howard Phillips), Manners and customs Materialism in literature Modiano, Patrick, Molecular biologists Nihilism Perec, Georges, Philosophy, French Photographers Photography, Erotic Political campaigns Political corruption Psychological fiction Quality of life Redonnet, Marie Religion in literature Religions--Relations Robbe-Grillet, Alain, Ruff, Thomas, Sartre, Jean-Paul, Sex tourism Social change Social conditions Social problems Spain Thailand
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Houellebecq.
Houellebecq, Michel
Houellebecq, Michel, 1956-
Houellebecq, Michel 1958-
Michael Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq écrivain français
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Michel Houellebecq las partículas elementales
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Michel Houellebecq scriitor francez
Michel Houellebecq scrittore, saggista e poeta francese
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Michel Thomas
Mişel Uelbek
Mïşelʹ Wélʹbek
Mišels Velbeks
Thomas, Michel
Thomas , Michel <1958- >
Uėlʹbek, Mišelʹ 1958-
Ueljbjek 1958-
Velbeks, Mišels 1958-
Ṿolbeḳ, Mishel 1958-
Wīlbīk, Mīšīl 1956-
Wīlibīk, Mīšāl 1956-
Μισέλ Ουελμπέκ Γάλλος συγγραφέας
Мишел Уелбек
Мишел Уелбек француски романописец, поет и режисер
Мишель Уэльбек
Мишель Уэльбек французский писатель и поэт
Мішель Уельбек
Мішэль Уэльбек
Тома М
Тома М. 1958-
Уэльбек, Мишель
Уэльбек, Мишель, 1958-
Միշել Ուելբեք
Միշել Ուելբեք ֆրանսիացի գրող
וולבק, מישל
וולבק, מישל 1958-
מישל וולבק
מישל וולבק סופר צרפתי
مىيشەل ۋەلبەك
ميشال ويلبك
ميشال ويلبك كاتب فرنسي
میشل ولبک
میشێل وێلبێک
ਮੀਸ਼ੇਲ ਵੇਲਬੇਕ
മൈക്കൽ ഹെയെല്ലെൽബെക് ഫ്രഞ്ച് ചലചിത്ര നടന്
മൈക്കൽ ഹൂലെബെക്ക്
მიშელ უელბეკი
미셸 우엘벡
우엘벡, 미셀 1958-
우엘벡, 미셸 1958-
ウエルベック, ミシェル
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