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Interventions 2020

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The death of God in the West was the prelude to a formidable metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity’s masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the promise of eternal participation in the Absolute. When that dream evaporated, various attempts were made to offer the individual a minimum of being. The latest of these attempts is advertising, which seeks to arouse desire and transform the subject into a docile phantom doomed to follow advertising’s every whim. But, like all previous attempts, this skin-deep, superficial participation in the world fails, and unhappiness and depression continue to spread.

However, we can all produce a cold revolution in ourselves by stepping outside the flow of information and advertising. We need to take some time out, unplug the television, turn off our iPhones, stop buying stuff, stop wanting to buy stuff, temporarily detach ourselves and adopt an aesthetic attitude to the world. We just need to stay still for a few seconds.

This is one of the key themes developed by Michel Houellebecq in this collection of his texts and interviews from the last three decades. Here he explains and elaborates his point of view, discusses his novels and addresses a wide range of topics from politics, religion and literature to suicide, euthanasia and paedophilia. An indispensable book for anyone interested in the work of one of the most widely read and controversial novelists of our time.

Author: Houellebecq Michel
Publisher: POLITY PRESS
Pages: 314
ISBN: 9781509549955
Cover: Hardback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2022

1.  Jacques Prévert is a jerk   
                  
2.  The Mirage by Jean-Claude Guiguet
                  
3. Approaches to distress
                         
4. Staring into the distance: in praise of silent cinema    

5. Interview with Jean-Yves Jouannais and Christophe Duchâtel

6. Art as peeling
                            
7. Creative absurdity
                             
8. The party
                                 
9. Time out    
                            
10. Opera bianca
                            
11. Letter to Lakis Proguidis   
                  
12. The question of paedophilia  
                
13. Humanity, the second stage  
            
14. Empty heavens                    
      
15. I have a dream                         

16. Neil Young                                   

17. Interview with Christian Authier                  

18. I don’t love myself                               

19. Sky, earth, sun                              

20. Leaving the twentieth century                     

21. Philippe Muray in 2002                       

22. Towards a semi-rehabilitation of the hick         

23. Conservatism, a source of progress           

24. Prolegomena to positivism                         

25. I’m normal. A normal writer                  

26. I have read my whole life long                    

27. Soil cutting                                       

28. The lost text                                

29. Interview with Frédéric Beigbeder                 

30. A remedy for the exhaustion of being              

31. Interview with Marin De Viry and Valérie Toranian       

32. Interview with Agathe Novak-Lechevalier                

33. Emmanuel Carrère and the problem of goodness      

34. Donald Trump is a good president                  

35. Conversation with Geoffroy Lejeune                

36. A bit worse. A response to a few friends                     

37. The Vincent Lambert affair should not have taken place 

 

Michel Houellebecq is a French writer, poet and essayist. His many bestselling books include Platform, The Possibility of an Island, Submission and Serotonin. He won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2010 and, in 2019, he was awarded the Légion d’honneur, France’s highest order of merit.

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