What did / do people think?
Atomised if you have time, if not try Lanzarote.
Also: I just read Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Dunker. Very simple book, I dont know why but this affected me, is an update of a classical form/theme. Anyone else read it?
Atomised if you have time, if not try Lanzarote.
Also: I just read Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Dunker. Very simple book, I dont know why but this affected me, is an update of a classical form/theme. Anyone else read it?
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Re: Michel Houellebecq.
Sun, January 14, 2007 - 9:37 AMI actually like him ok.
Haven't read Dunker yet, but have heard good things about it.
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Re: Michel Houellebecq.
Tue, January 16, 2007 - 3:15 AMI love Houellebecq. He's ahead of the game. Atomised is a wonderful novel of ideas. I met him last year. He's a funny guy. He seemed more interested in playing his CD of poetry / electronic music mix than reading from his new book.
Hallunicating Foucault upset me greatly but in a good way. I'd never thought before about the relationship between the reader and the writer. Zadie Smith now writes a lot about this relationship and the skill of being a reader. Is that what you took away from it? -
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Re: Michel Houellebecq.
Tue, February 6, 2007 - 5:37 AMYes. I just found Italo Calvino's 'If on a winter's night a traveller' - and its explaining a lot about how i approach a text. I am so in love with him. -
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Re: Michel Houellebecq.
Sat, March 3, 2007 - 4:26 AMI'm just finishing Plateforme.
I can't figure out why I like it at all, except that... everything is described in the same, kind of distant, tone. What the narrator watches on TV gets the same attention as the people who pass through the room as he watches.
The sex scenes got on my nerves after a while, though.
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