LE MONDE : L’auteur s’est livré récemment dans la revue « Front populaire », dénonçant la perte de l’identité des Français, menacés par « les musulmans ». Sa dérive apparaît d’autant plus sincère qu’il s’exprime dans un entretien croisé et amical avec Michel Onfray, le fondateur de cette publication.
Analyse. Michel Houellebecq est familier de la polémique, ses romans dressent un portrait sombre et grinçant de la société française. L’antiféminisme des personnages ou le franc rejet de l’islam mis en scène dans Soumission (Flammarion, 2015) peuvent relever de la licence de l’écrivain. Il use néanmoins, comme d’autres, de sa notoriété pour intervenir régulièrement dans le débat public, ce qui vient abattre toute distance littéraire. Dans un récent hors-série de la revue Front populaire (« Fin de l’Occident ? », 144 pages, 13,90 euros), il livre, sans fard, ses observations sur la situation sociale et politique de la France. La virulence du propos marque une étape supplémentaire dans la radicalisation à l’extrême droite d’un auteur à succès. Cette dérive apparaît d’autant plus sincère que l’écrivain s’exprime dans un entretien croisé et amical avec l’essayiste et fondateur de cette publication, Michel Onfray, lui aussi obsédé par « la chute du christianisme » et par l’idée que les Français, qui cultivent « la détestation de soi », sont complices de la perte de leur identité. » | Par Marc-Olivier Bherer | jeudi 15 décembre 2022
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Michel Houellebecq : « C’est avec les bons sentiments qu’on fait de la bonne littérature » : L’écrivain, star mondiale de la littérature française contemporaine, se confie au « Monde » en exclusivité, peu avant la parution, le 7 janvier, d’« Anéantir », son nouveau roman. Premier volet d’une rencontre en deux parties. »
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Friday, November 20, 2015
Nach Anschlägen in Paris: Houellebecq pöbelt gegen Frankreichs Politiker
Bestsellerautor Michel Houellebecq ist aufgrund seiner provokanten Äußerungen und Romane nicht unumstritten |
Nach den Anschlägen von Paris wurden schnell auch Stimmen laut, die Frankreichs Regierung und Geheimdiensten vorwarfen, im Vorfeld der terroristischen Attentate versagt zu haben. Der aufgrund provokanter Äußerungen umstrittene Bestsellerautor Michel Houellebecq übt in einem Gastkommentar, der am Donnerstag zunächst in der italienischen Zeitung "Corriere della Sera" und einen Tag später auch in der "New York Times" erschienen ist, ebenfalls harsche Kritik an Frankreichs Regierung. » | mod | Freitag, 20. November 2015
Wednesday, January 07, 2015
'Islamophobic' Michel Houellebecq Book Featured by Charlie Hebdo Published Today
Sunday, January 04, 2015
A Muslim-run France? Novel Sparks Islamophobia Row
“Submission”, which is released in French on Wednesday, has been the subject of intense debate in recent weeks, particularly for its portrayal of Islam.
In 2001 Houellebeck described Islam as “the stupidest of all religions”, a position he has since vocally distanced himself from.
But his latest book has stirred criticism from all quarters and been attacked widely by the French media and on social media. France’s Muslim community accuse the author of inciting Islamophobia in a country with Europe’s biggest Muslim population.
Leading the barrage is Laurent Joffrin, editor-in-chief of left-leaning newspaper Libération, who argues that the novel “will mark the date in history when the ideas of the far-right made a grand return to serious French literature”.
“This is a book that ennobles the ideas of the [far right anti-Europe and anti-immigration] National Front (FN) party,” he added.
Not so, said philosopher Alain Finkielkraut, a member of France’s prestigious Academie Française, who described Houellebecq as a man, “with his eyes wide open and who is not intimidated by political correctness”. » | Sunday, January 04, 2014
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Enfant terrible's Literary Vision of an Islamic France
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Michel Houellebecq, who first stirred controversy with sex novel Atomised, makes waves with book describing country after Islamist becomes president
Put France’s literary enfant terrible together with Europe’s most combustible political talking point, and sparks were always going to fly.
Michel Houellebecq, whose tale of sex, mother-hatred and cloning Atomised was the French literary scandal of the Nineties, is turning his attention to “Islamisation”.
His new novel Soumission (Submission), will not be published until January 7 but has already triggered a flurry of accusations that he is pandering to the growing Islamophobia gripping France.
It is set in 2022 and imagines the country electing a Muslim president, who goes on to convert France to his vision of society.
In a twist, he is not only able to implement his programme - but it works. France becomes more positive about its future, and more prosperous too.
Houellebecq has already been accused of aligning himself with so-called neo-réactionnaire writers and intellectuals such as Eric Zemmour and Renaud Camus who argue that France’s national identity has been irreversibly diluted by mass immigration and the growth of Islam. » | Rory Mulholland, Paris | Saturday, January 03, 2015
Put France’s literary enfant terrible together with Europe’s most combustible political talking point, and sparks were always going to fly.
Michel Houellebecq, whose tale of sex, mother-hatred and cloning Atomised was the French literary scandal of the Nineties, is turning his attention to “Islamisation”.
His new novel Soumission (Submission), will not be published until January 7 but has already triggered a flurry of accusations that he is pandering to the growing Islamophobia gripping France.
It is set in 2022 and imagines the country electing a Muslim president, who goes on to convert France to his vision of society.
In a twist, he is not only able to implement his programme - but it works. France becomes more positive about its future, and more prosperous too.
Houellebecq has already been accused of aligning himself with so-called neo-réactionnaire writers and intellectuals such as Eric Zemmour and Renaud Camus who argue that France’s national identity has been irreversibly diluted by mass immigration and the growth of Islam. » | Rory Mulholland, Paris | Saturday, January 03, 2015
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