Houellebecq, Michel

Overview

Works:	364 works in 1,320 publications in 7 languages and 19,281 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Criticism, interpretation, etc Psychological fiction Records and correspondence Humorous stories Biography Domestic fiction History Pictorial works
Roles:	Author of introduction, Bibliographic antecedent, Editor, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Interviewee, Creator, Adapter, Author of dialog, Performer, Director, Lyricist, Narrator, Film editor, Scenarist
Classifications:	PQ2668.O77, 843.914

Publication Timeline

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Publications about Michel Houellebecq

Publications by Michel Houellebecq

Most widely held works about Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq author of our times by John McCann ( )
Michel Houellebecq à la Une by Murielle Lucie Clément ( )
Michel Houellebecq sous la loupe by Murielle Lucie Clement ( )
Michel Houellebecq : humanity and its aftermath by Douglas Morrey ( )
Fin de millénaire French fiction : the aesthetics of crisis by Ruth Cruickshank ( Book )

The coming of the body by Hervé Juvin ( Book )
Nihilism by Bülent Diken ( Book )
Ennemis publics by Michel Houellebecq ( Book )
Michel Houellebecq revisité : l'écriture houellebecquienne by Murielle Lucie Clément ( Book )
Michel Houellebecq : le plaisir du texte by Sabine van Wesemael ( Book )
Houellebecq, en fait by Dominique Noguez ( Book )
Écarts de la modernité : le roman français de Sartre à Houellebecq by Sabine Hillen ( Book )
Houellebecq, sperme et sang by Murielle Lucie Clément ( Book )
Les tiroirs de Michel Houellebecq by Bruno Viard ( Book )
Houellebecq non autorisé : enquête sur un phénomène by Denis Demonpion ( Book )
Michel Houellebecq, ou, La provocation permanente by Jean-François Patricola ( Book )
Michel Houellebecq and the literature of despair by Carole Sweeney ( Book )
La littérature à vif : le cas Houellebecq by Olivier Bardolle ( Book )
The art of struggle by Michel Houellebecq ( Book )
Houellebecq écrivain romantique by Aurélien Bellanger ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Michel Houellebecq

The map and the territory by Michel Houellebecq ( Book )
21 editions published between 2011 and 2013 in English and held by 1,215 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--Résumé de l'éditeur

The possibility of an island by Michel Houellebecq ( Book )
18 editions published between 2005 and 2013 in English and held by 969 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

The elementary particles by Michel Houellebecq ( Book )
11 editions published between 2000 and 2013 in English and held by 904 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

Platform : a novel by Michel Houellebecq ( Book )
21 editions published between 2002 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 893 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

Les particules élémentaires : roman by Michel Houellebecq ( Book )
56 editions published between 1998 and 2010 in French and Italian and held by 694 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Analyse : Roman érotique. Roman de société

La carte et le territoire by Michel Houellebecq ( Book )
25 editions published between 2010 and 2012 in French and English and held by 546 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Jed Martin, acclaimed photographer, emerges from a ten-year hiatus, with a new exhibition -- the exhibition guide is to be written by French novelist Michel Houellebecq -- a self-referential feature that plays with the format of the novel, which seeks to entertain as well as impress

Plateforme : roman by Michel Houellebecq ( Book )
32 editions published between 2001 and 2010 in French and held by 538 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Analyse : Roman de société

La possibilité d'une île by Michel Houellebecq ( Book )
28 editions published between 2005 and 2013 in French and Spanish and held by 518 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Au XXIe siècle, une secte promettant l'immortalité à ses membres a supplanté les religions traditionnelles. Chacun des adeptes, devenu vieux, se suicide en laissant un échantillon d'ADN et un récit de vie. Cloné indéfiniment tous les 50 ans, il mène plusieurs siècles d'une vie esseulée où les sentiments n'ont pas cours. Une interrogation sur la vie éternelle à travers la vie de Daniel

Public enemies : dueling writers take on each other and the world by Bernard-Henri Lévy ( Book )
6 editions published between 2011 and 2013 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 ( Book )
11 editions published between 2005 and 2008 in English and held by 480 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

Extension du domaine de la lutte : roman by Michel Houellebecq ( Book )
66 editions published between 1994 and 2010 in French and held by 476 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Analyse : Roman de société

Whatever : a novel by Michel Houellebecq ( Book )
11 editions published between 1998 and 2011 in English and held by 473 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

Lanzarote by Michel Houellebecq ( Book )
26 editions published between 2000 and 2006 in 7 languages and held by 335 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In the sector of the holiday market that caters for sun, sangria and house music, not to mention sex, Lanzarote rivals Corfu and Ibiza. Tourism in Lanzarote remains resolutely un-'green' and certainly wholly uncultural; 21st century hedonism, set in a bizarre lunar landscape - Martian, according to the travel agent. On Lanzarote, it is possible to meet some fascinating human specimens - notably Pam and Barbara, 'non-exclusive' German lesbians. Will they succeed in seducing Rudi, the police inspector from Luxembourg, currently living in exile in Brussels? Or will he join the Azraelian sect, as they prepare for humanity to be regenerated by extraterrestrials? As for our narrator, will he consider his week's holiday on the island a success?

Atomised by Michel Houellebecq ( Book )
10 editions published between 1999 and 2007 in English and held by 316 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. This is the story of two brothers, but the subject of the novel is in its dismantling of society and its assumptions, a dissection of modern lives and loves

Rester vivant ; suivi de, La poursuite du bonheur by Michel Houellebecq ( Book )
37 editions published between 1997 and 2008 in French and held by 179 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

H.P. Lovecraft : contre le monde, contre la vie by Michel Houellebecq ( Book )
23 editions published between 1991 and 2010 in French and held by 176 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"

De kaart en het gebied : roman by Michel Houellebecq ( Book )
5 editions published between 2011 and 2014 in Dutch and held by 162 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

Elementaire deeltjes by Michel Houellebecq ( Book )
10 editions published between 1999 and 2011 in Dutch and held by 160 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Zedenschets van de tweede helft van de 20e eeuw aan de hand van de levensgeschiedenis van twee halfbroers, de een een vergeestelijkt wetenschapper, de ander een jachtige erotomaan

Nudes by Thomas Ruff ( Book )
11 editions published in 2003 in 3 languages and held by 151 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Renaissance by Michel Houellebecq ( Book )
7 editions published in 1999 in French and held by 141 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Des "poèmes de survie", remplis d'éclairs sauvages, de férocité et de musique

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