Michel Houellebecq interview (in English) for the BBC
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Uploaded by manwithaplan999 on May 10, 2008
interview that Houellebecq gave for BBC's The Culture Show, on release of 'The Possibility of an Island'.
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That pompous buffoon - the critic Peter Parker - reminds me of a story once related by Charles Bukowski. A critic once ripped a then unknown writer to shreds. Bukowski said: "That writer was D H Lawrence and the critic has, quite rightly, been forgotten." - critics are nothing more than legends in their own lunch-time.
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@tcubeful pompous self-aggrandizing piffle. Cut it down: just say "I hate the French" instead and stop name-dropping the greats.
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Like George Jonas once said: french philosophers don't age very well. One can still read Kant or Hegel or Bacon and know that they are/were relevant. Proust, Satre and Camus on the other hand were nothing more than Beatniks, but with a huge obsession to be self-absorbed, which is typical french like their movies of the 60's and 70's. Houellebecq knows that and so he recycles a young Christopher Hitchens without having his talent, his skill or his likeability. Not to mention his knowledge. A scam
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What's compelling to me about MH (as an author) is his brutally sincere vision--all conveyed with spare and searing prose. The world-building around those emptied protagonists, particularly in The Elementary Particles, is completely 'successful' and, yes, unpleasant. It's difficult to turn away.
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Man, if only Sacha Baron Cohen would do a Houellebecq character.
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I think Houellebcq parodies the absurdity of middle-aged men being obsessed with sex rather than advocating this as a way to spend your declining years.
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Houellebcq's characters "sleep with a lot of women"? Really?
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His books are like E.M. Cioran but with more fucking.
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@ABombs1 Hmm...
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@Asmodeusex Same aura
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Why are most literary critics such insufferable douchebags? Houellebeque gives this interviewer and his vapid questions the level of interest that they deserve. If one is going to take the time to chat w/ one of the more original literary minds of the last fifty years, why not come up w/ a few noteworthy questions?
ApResMoiLeDeluge8787 2 years ago 6
i hate those needle - voice critics - he is too kind for not sticking his cigarette on their tongues.
poppymu 2 years ago 4