Michel Houellebecq , of his true name Michel Thomas , is a French writer born the February 26th 1958 (birth certificate) or in 1956 with the Réunion. Its novels the Elementary particles and Plateforme were worth a sulfurous international reputation of agitator to him, but are also often regarded as a new tone in the French Littérature. It is compared besides to the Anglo-Saxon movement called of social Anticipation.

Biography

His/her father, guides high mountain, and his/her mother, doctor anesthetist, ignore him very quickly, while is born a half-sister. Initially, they are his/her maternal grandparents, in Algérie, which deals with it. To six years, he is then entrusted to his paternal grandmother Henriette, Communiste, of which he adopted the name like Pseudonyme.

He discovers Lovecraft at 16 years. He follows the preparatory classes to the universities to the Lycée Chaptal of Paris, before integrating in 1975 the agronomic National institute Paris-Oil cake (INA P-G). With Agro, it founds the transitory literary review Karamazov for which it writes some poems and starts the turning of a film entitled Cristal of suffering . It leaves there graduate in 1978 with a specialization (fortuitous) in “ Development the natural environment and ecology ”.

It will be then raises 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure Louis Lumière, in section cinematograph - option taken of sights, which it will leave before obtaining his diploma in 1981. This same year is born his/her Etienne son. He knows then a period of Chômage, and a divorce which will generate deep a Nervous breakdown.

He begins in 1983 a career in data processing at Unilog, then with the Ministère of agriculture, where there will remain three years (this period will be told in Extension of the field of the fight ) and finally with the National Assembly.

Its first two collections of poems, published in 1991, pass unperceived. The whole of the topics of the books to come there are already treated: existential loneliness, denunciation of liberalism to work until in the intimacy of the individuals. It is the prose which will reveal the author thereafter.

Quotations

• “the modern individual is (thus) ready to take seat in a system of transactions generalized in which it became possible to allot to him, in a univocal and nonambiguous way, an exchange value. ”
• “the human relations become gradually impossible, which reduces by as much the quantity of anecdotes whose is composed a life”
• “the man is a teenager decreased” Extension of the field of the fight
• “the economic liberalism, it is the extension of the field of the fight, its extension to all the ages of the life and all the classes of the company. In the same way, sexual liberalism, it is the extension of the field of the fight, its extension to all the ages of the life and all the classes of the company. On the economic plan, Raphaël Tisserand belongs to the clan of the winners; on the sexual level, with that of overcome. Some gain on the two tables; others lose on both. The companies dispute certain graduates; the women dispute certain young men; the men dispute certain young women; the disorder and agitation are considerable. ” Extension of the field of the fight

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