Michel Houellebecq

I have been tempted to take up Houellebecq's work. I have gotten one of my favorite quotations from him. He is a bit of a controversialist. He wrote that novel about France being taken over by Islam and sharia law. After reading his interview with Paris Review, I am feeling a bit of emotional kinship with him and am more tempted than ever. My plate is filled up now, but he is on my mind.

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INTERVIEWER

How do you have the nerve to write some of the things you do?


HOUELLEBECQ

Oh, it’s easy. I just pretend that I’m already dead.


-- Michel Houellebecq at The Paris Review (Fall 2010)


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