| Author: | Michel Houellebecq, Won Prix Goncourt in 2010 for The Map and the Territory | ISBN: | 9781847651617 |
| Publisher: | Profile | Publication: | May 5, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Serpent's Tail | Language: | English |
| Author: | Michel Houellebecq, Won Prix Goncourt in 2010 for The Map and the Territory |
| ISBN: | 9781847651617 |
| Publisher: | Profile |
| Publication: | May 5, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Serpent's Tail |
| Language: | English |
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until, that is, he's packed off with a colleague - the unimaginably ugly, sexually-frustrated virgin Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system... A painfully realistic portrayal of the vanishing freedom of a world governed by science and by the empty rituals of daily life.
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until, that is, he's packed off with a colleague - the unimaginably ugly, sexually-frustrated virgin Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system... A painfully realistic portrayal of the vanishing freedom of a world governed by science and by the empty rituals of daily life.
