MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ AND LITERATURE AS CRACKED MIRROR OF THE CONTEMPORARY SPACE
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https://doi.org/10.32813/2179-1120.2021.v14.n1.a726Keywords:
Michel Houellebecq, Contemporaneousness, Literature, MethodAbstract
This text develops the analysis the work of the french writer Michel Houellebecq performing the following questioning: how does this author contribute to the understanding of contemporaneity? In this feeling, the argument develops through three directions: a) to question Houellebecq's work method, describing which elements influence its writing process; b) to highlight that the effects of flexible capital accumulation in the space permeate his work; c) describe some of his plots in a panoramic manner, focusing on the way in which the characters are subjectified by the current world. Through thesse goals, it is concluded that the ongoing transformations have been plunging society into a feeling of uncertainty whose result is an ontological illness, treated at the expense of consumerism, ansiolytics, promiscuity, individualism and other excesses. By capturing this context with mastery, without moralism and uncompromising theoretical postulates, Michel Houellebecq makes literature one of the main keys for reading contemporary space.
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