Platform by Michel Houellebecq
Houellebecq's new novel tells the story of an attempt to create a package-holiday company for sex-tourists. Less philosophical and grandly ambitious than Atomised, it is, if anything, even more outrageously funny and bitingly satirical of the ways we live now than the earlier novel. Added to which, there is a genuinely moving love affair, real characters and a real plot!
Houellebecq's Atomised is a hard act to followA ludicrously ambitious novel about the failings of contemporary society which compelled and shocked at the same time, the book received ample coverage, high sales for a work of literary fiction and won the lucrative Impac award. Platform shares much in common with its predecessor but, if anything, the work is more uncompromising. Michel, an administrator in a Paris art gallery, takes a holiday in Thailand following his father's murder. What follows is a travelogue with a difference, casting a cold eye on the narrator as well as his fellow package holiday tourists, and taking in Emmanuel Kant, economic theory, Agatha Christie, sexual politics and even a socially-conscious pornographic film entitled Senior Citizens on the Rampage.
Michel Houellebecq nacio en 1958 en la francesa Isla Reunion. Publico su primer libro, un ensayo sobre Lovecraft, en 1991, y su primera novela, Ampliacion del campo de batalla, en 1994. La aparicion en 1998 de su segunda novela, Las particulas elementales, fue una historia literaria y editorial asombrosa. El fenomeno Houellebecq provoco innumerables y apasionados debates en la prensa internacional. El libro, que vendio en Francia mas de 350.000 ejemplares, ha sido publicado en mas de treinta paises. Ese mismo ano gano el Premio Nacional de las Letras. En otono de 1999 publico Renacimiento, una coleccion de poesia que se suma a Sobrevivir (1991), La busqueda de la felicidad (1992) y El sentido de la lucha (1996, Premio de Flore), y en 2013, Configuracion de la ultima orilla. En 2001 vuelve a la narrativa con Plataforma. Como ensayista, es autor de El mundo como supermercado (1998), Enemigos publicos (2008) e Intervenciones (2009). El mapa y el territorio (2010, Premio Goncourt) y Sumision (2015) son sus ultimas novelas. La posibilidad de una isla, publicada por primera vez en 2005, merecio el Premio Interallie 2005 y se convirtio pronto en un best seller internacional cuyos derechos mundiales fueron vendidos a una treintena de paises, ademas de ser adaptada al cine por el propio autor.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780434009893 |
| ISBN 10 | 043400989X |
| Title | Platform |
| Author | Michel Houellebecq |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2002-09-05 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |