A depressed agricultural engineer stalks women and rages at the world in Houellebecq’s banal and predictable latest novel
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For years, various men have told me I should read Michel Houellebecq’s novels – that they would give me a unique insight into masculinity, France, Islam, YouPorn, sex tourism, late capitalism, the human condition, and other things I should probably know more about.
He braves subjects that British novelists would never dare to write about, they said. He has this unique gift of prophesying real-life events too: Islamic terrorism with Submission (2015); and with his latest novel, Serotonin, the gilets jaunes protests, apparently.
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