Showing Whatever by Michel Houellebecq
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Just thirty, with a well-paid job, no love life and a terrible attitude, the anti-hero of this grim, funny novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until he's packed off with a colleague - the sexually-frustrated Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system
Houellebecq's first novel was a smash hit in France, expressing the misanthropic voice of a generation. Like A Confederacy of Dunces, Houellebecq's bitter, sarcastic and exasperated narrator vociferously expresses his frustration and disgust with the world.
Important places
- Lanzarote Island (9)
- Rouen (69)
- Saint-Cirgues-en-Montagne (1)
- St.-Cirgues-en-Montagne (1)
Regions
- Las Palmas (17)
- Paris (3,057)
- Seine-Maritime (136)
- Ardèche (2)
Countries
Other geographical areas
- Canary Islands (41)
- Massif Central (51)
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (198)
- Macaronesia (219)
- Normandie (609)
- Ile-de-France (3,166)
- Southern Europe (7,123)