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Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than in practice, his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated. Both are symptomatic members of our atomise ...Show more
H.P. Lovecraft : Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq
26.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
'Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.' In this prescient work, now with an introduction by Stephen King, Michel Houelle ...Show more
H. P. Lovecraft - Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq pays tribute to the master of horror, H. P. LovecraftPart biographical sketch, part pronouncement on existence and literature, the best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq's H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, was published in France i ...Show more
In the Presence of Schopenhauer by Michel Houellebecq; Andrew Brown (Translator)
20.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
The work of Michel Houellebecq - one of the most widely read and controversial novelists of our time - is marked by the thought of Schopenhauer. When Houellebecq came across a copy of Schopenhauer's Aphorisms in a library in his mid-twenties, he was bowled over by it and he hunted down a copy of his maj ...Show more
Jeff Koons Versailles by Michel Houellebecq
85.00 AUD
Category: Art
Text by Anette Husch, Peter-Klaus Schuster.
Platform by Michel Houellebecq
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.In his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as little human con ...Show more
Public Enemies by Michel Houellebecq & Bernard-Henri Levy
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
'Everything separates us from one another, with the exception of one fundamental point: we're both utterly despicable individuals' - (Houellebecq to BHL). In 2008, two of the most celebrated of French intellectuals began a ferocious exchange of letters. "Public Enemies" is the result. In their inimitabl ...Show more
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZETHE MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH BOOK OF THE YEAR___________________'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York TimesDissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labroust ...Show more
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' - Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York Times Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste begrudgingly works as an engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture, and is in a self-imposed dysfunctional ...Show more
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a near-future France, Fran ois, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession - the ideas and works of the nineteenth-century novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans - has led him nowhere. In a late-capitalis ...Show more
The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love affair with the beautiful Olga. It is that, for his new exhibition, he has secured th ...Show more
The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq
26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The most celebrated and controversial French novelist of our time delivers a riveting masterpiece about art and money, love and friendship, and fathers and sons. Jed Martin is an artist. His first photographs feature Michelin road maps, and global success arrives with his series on professions: portrait ...Show more