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A review by dukegregory
Whatever by Michel Houellebecq, Paul Hammond
3.0
3.5
A humorous, cynical takedown of late twentieth-century life (the post-sexual liberation sexual economy, corporate/IT work that amounts to little, the isolation of contemporary life regardless of the existence of more communication channels than ever, the usual gender dynamics of Houellebecq). It's a debut novel that dodges novelistic tendencies in an effort to supersede the false sentimentality of the form. Makes me more curious about his much more famous works. Going to have to do some reading before his newest novel comes out in the fall.
A humorous, cynical takedown of late twentieth-century life (the post-sexual liberation sexual economy, corporate/IT work that amounts to little, the isolation of contemporary life regardless of the existence of more communication channels than ever, the usual gender dynamics of Houellebecq). It's a debut novel that dodges novelistic tendencies in an effort to supersede the false sentimentality of the form. Makes me more curious about his much more famous works. Going to have to do some reading before his newest novel comes out in the fall.