· Overview. A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus–a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as we know it has vanished. Surprisingly poignant, philosophically compelling, and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, The Possibility of an Island is at once an indictment, an elegy, Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. If you liked Atomisedand Platform, you'll love The Possibility of an Island. Houellebecq is perhaps the most talented of current French writers, and might be termed the Lord of the New Despair, but he has yet to write his masterpiece. He can do whatever he wants; a happy, but dangerous state for a writer."Author: Michel Houellebecq. · Michel Houellebecq continues to say the unsayable in The Possibility of an Island, but to what end, asks Tim Adams. They have become a type. Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.
Synopsis. La Possibilité d'une île is a film directed by Michel Houellebecq, loosely based on his novel The Possibility of an Island. Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps. Preview — The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq. The Possibility of an Island Quotes Showing of "Youth was the time for happiness, its only season; young people, leading a lazy, carefree life, partially occupied by scarcely absorbing studies, were able to devote themselves unlimitedly to the liberated exultation of. In many respects, The Possibility of an Island picks up where an earlier Houellebecq novel, Les Particules élémentaires (; The Elementary Particles, also known as Atomised, ), leaves off.
The Possibility of an Island (French: La Possibilité d'une île) is a novel by French novelist Michel Houellebecq, set within a cloning cult that resembles the real-world Raëlians. Plot summary. There are three main characters - Daniel and two of his clones. After something of a sputtering with Platform, Houellebecq is in high form here with Possibility of an Island. He admitted himself that Platform was a failure partially because the idea behind Possibility was clunking around in his head as he wrote Platform. That's interesting This book has a number of high marks. In "The Possibility of an Island," the coolness of Houellebecq the satirist repeatedly runs up against the heat of Houellebecq the priapic bad boy, making for some pretty strange weather.
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