Soumission

Dans une France assez proche de la n tre, un homme s engage dans la carri re universitaire Peu motiv par l enseignement, il s attend une vie ennuyeuse mais calme, prot g e des grands drames historiques Cependant les forces en jeu dans le pays ont fissur le syst me politique jusqu provoquer son effondrement Cette implosion sans soubresauts, sans vraie r volution, se d veloppe comme un mauvais r ve.Le talent de l auteur, sa force visionnaire nous entra nent sur un terrain ambigu et glissant son regard sur notre civilisation vieillissante fait coexister dans ce roman les intuitions po tiques, les effets comiques, une m lancolie fataliste.Ce livre est une saisissante fable politique et morale. New Read [ Soumission ] by [ Michel Houellebecq ] – kino-fada.fr This week, on DystopiaMichel Houellebecq discusses the future with Robert Heinlein Good evening, M Houellebecq Bonsoir, M Heinlein Alors, please, tell me your vision of the future Sure So Western civilization, it s already in a process of, ah, d sintegration You got it, buddy As my old friend Cyril Kornbluth used to say, they breed faster than we do Muslims, monsieur People with low IQs Same difference Excusez moi, monsieur, my novel is respectful towards the Muslim wor This week, on DystopiaMichel Houellebecq discusses the future with Robert Heinlein Good evening, M Houellebecq Bonsoir, M Heinlein Alors, please, tell me your vision of the future Sure So Western civilization, it s already in a process of, ah, d sintegration You got it, buddy As my old friend Cyril Kornbluth used to say, they breed faster than we do Muslims, monsieur People with low IQs Same difference Excusez moi, monsieur, my novel is respectful towards the Muslim world But you do say they breed faster than us I do You ain t foolin anyone, Michel I rest my case We must, ah, agree to disagree Alors, la d sintegration de la civilisation occidentale. There will be increasing relaxation of the m urs sexuels Women will comport themselves like prostitutes, openly flaunting their faces, their legs, their breasts I think it s important to describe this process explicitly Absoluement, tr s important. The reader must be...Wow Great satire of French of European of Western values or lack thereof So well done that the irony often slips by unnoticed Who the hell are we SoumissionSo what do you call a novel about Muslims taking over control of France A novel of generally cynical politics A novel where women appear mostly in sexually explicit scenes and have little to say except in defining themselves in relation to men some exceptions A novel where 15 year old girls become acceptable as second Wow Great satire of French of European of Western values or lack thereof So well done that the irony often slips by unnoticed Who the hell are we SoumissionSo what do you call a novel about Muslims taking over control of France A novel of generally cynical politics A novel where women appear mostly in sexually explicit scenes and have little to say except in defining themselves in relation to men some exceptions A novel where 15 ...As a former Muslim, I see that Houellebecq is right on the money I escaped Egypt my country in search of a land of freedom, and yet here oppression is chasing after me in the West We love for Europe to be Europe After all, that is why we left our mother countries in search of acivilized world where human dignity is respected By the way, please take a moment to read my story of conversion into Christianity and drop me a line and I will be your fri...It seems as though Houellebecq wrote the novel to stir up not debate but controversy I m afraid to say that charging a small segment of French population with so much power and influence is way too out of proportion French Muslims have no power as a bloc , have no media representation they own nothing , have no think tanks or lobbies to influence decision making in France or elsewhere in Europe.Sure, th...In the book Submission Houellebecq describes in a calm, almost casual style, the fictional stories of a Paris university professor of literature, who describes his everyday life and thereby taps the social upheaval, after a Muslim party has won the elections Houellebecq tells about social developments in France, how it leads to the election success of the Muslim party and what the consequences are The whole book is written in excellent language with a lot of bad irony and subtle humor For t In the book Submission Houellebecq describes in a calm, almost casual style, the fictional stories of a Paris university professor of literature, who describes his everyday life and thereby taps the social upheaval, after a Muslim party has won the elections Houellebecq tells about social developments in France, how it leads to the election success of the Muslim party and what the consequences are The whole book is written in excellent language with a lot of bad irony and subtle humor For this li...I set out to read this book expecting to be provoked because in my experience Houellebecq is always hell bent on provoking somebody, and very often that somebody is of the opposite sex I wasn t disappointed this time his narrator managed to provoke me right at the beginning, and regularly from then on, so I decided that the only way to review this book was with a full set of teeth on show But relax, my teeth are not bared , just...Would a society based on Moderate Islam be such a bad thing This seems to be the kind of book that divides critics into the two equally useless camps 1 This is islamophobic and racist garbage 2 Bravo A dark satire My view is that it s neither All Houllebecq is saying is that a completely secular society is like a vacuum Given the opportunity, it will let itself be filled If...This is a case of a novel of ideas with the best or worst possible timing The very day it was published in French was the day of the Charlie Hebdo shootings a few short weeks after the English translation came out, Paris was attacked again Our protagonist, whose name I ve already forgotten, is a professor of 19th century literature and an gormless slob who eats microwave food and hires prostitutes to lick his balls He, like many Houellebecq protagonists, moves through life with a depressed This is a case of a novel of ideas with the best o...Sex, Religion and PoliticsIf you only read one book about sex, religion and politics this year, make sure it s this one It packs enormous punch into far less than 300 pages, raising the question yet again why novels need to be 562 or 1,376 pages long and if they do on the basis of some subjective criterion, why they aren t written with such consistent verve, intelligence, wit and humour asSubmission.For all the philosophy, this novel is paced like a mass market thriller or the screenplay Sex, Religion and PoliticsIf you only read one book about sex, religion and politics this year, make sure it s this one It packs enormous punch into far less than 300 pages, raising the question yet again why novels need to be 562 or 1,376 pages long and if they do on the basis of some subjective criterion, why they aren t written with such consistent verve, intelligence, wit and humour asSubmission.For all the philosophy, this novel is paced like a mass market thriller or the screenplay for a prophetic, if not quite dystopian, film Think an R ratedFahrenheit 4...Il est de bon ton de critiquer le dernier Houellebecq.Les fans des Particules l mentaires y voient une uvre mineure, annonciatrice de l in luctable d clin du grand homme les contempteurs du prix Goncourt, un ni me ressassement de sa veulerie beauf.Je ne crierai pas avec les loups Pour trois raisons.1 Le style Houellebecq crit bien Fichtrement bien Avec l air de ne pas y toucher Et pourtant avec un perfectionnisme qui force d autant plus l admiration qu il a l humilit de ne pas se la Il est de bon ton de critiquer le dernier Houellebecq.Les fans des Particules l mentaires y voient une uvre mineure, annonciatrice de l in luctable d clin du grand homme les contempteurs du prix Goncourt, un ni me ressassement de sa veulerie beauf.Je ne crierai pas avec les loups Pour trois raisons.1 Le style Houellebecq crit bien Fichtrement bien Avec l air de ne pas y toucher Et pourtant avec un perfectionnisme qui force d autant plus l admiration qu il a l humilit de ne pas se laisser voir Loin de la prose pr tentieuse d Ono dit Biot ou de la simplicit r che de Toussaint, Houellebecq nous offre un vrai plaisir de lecture Son cynisme lui vite la morgue ou le didactisme La profondeu...

• French
• 15 December 2018
Michel Houellebecq
• Paperback
• 300 pages
• 2081354802
• Michel Houellebecq
• Soumission