Saturday, November 05, 2005

Houellebecq


His latest book has come out and as always, there are a few very interesting reviews. Most of them criticise him for repeating what he did in his earlier books, indulging in scatter-shot misanthropy but they are always full of hilarious quotes and bleak insights from the book.

Here are a few reviews I found of his latest book.

A profile from The Guardian
The Sunday Times
Profile from The Sunday Times
The Guardian
The Observer

If you don't know about his career and his previous books, here is his entry on the Guardian authors page.

And yes, he lost out this year's Goncourt's prize to some author from Belgium! Just in case if any one cares!

3 comments:

Warriors of the Rainbow said...

Another good review from The Guardian: http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,1604344,00.html

I am sufficiently curious now to drive to the nearest B&N.

Warriors of the Rainbow said...

Sorry I meant, http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,782337,00.html

a review of his earlier book Atomised.

Alok said...

WOTR: thanks for this!!

I don't think the book is yet out in US. You will have to wait :)