The Map and the Territory
Michel Houellebecq
Date of publication: 2010
Publisher: Vintage
Duration: 291 pages
Winner of the 2010 Prix Goncourt
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Observing the world of art and celebrity under the Houellebecq microscope - the result is: 'The Map and the Territory'; a collaborative journey of the world of quirks, ills and utter nonchalance through the eyes of artist Jed Martin. Not forgetting the inflated fortunes and the weariness of reinvention and the cuckoo need to make sense of visual exploration - all for the sake of art. Oh, and Michel Houellebecq, the author who wrote 'Atomised' features as a character.
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'The world is weary of me, and I am weary of it.' - Charles d'Orléans
So far the twenty-first century as gone to plan in …show more content…
Indeed, romance therefore is a stone throw away, not in the 'Mills and Boon' meaning of course purely because Houellebecq doesn't deliver on grandiloquent content, whereby infatuations / adoration has the legs to be infinite. Dalliances are as clinical as a 'Michelin' map print procedure; only when the mist clears you're aware of the empty cupboard, the cold night chill. What Houellebecq is a master of is the depiction of self-made hubris; the ability to keep the reader guessing... in 'The Map and the Territory' scenario - one moment, can provide you an entirely different pathway, in riches and loves. The beauty of this novel is it can create a spark in the most emotionless of readerships, I found myself actually caring whether 'the little French man' (Jed Martin) was going to walk the route to eternal happiness, or fade inwardly, philosophising over the works of William Morris, just as his father Jean-Pierre did. Onlookers will experience a strain of sorrowful circumstances throughout the novel; again vintage Michel Houellebecq; however, you cannot dismiss the self-parody, the ritual wit, and the idioms that cradles ones' familiarity; this is why I'll continue to be fascinated. He triumphs his own glib as a writer, and rightly so. This'll infuriate a demographic who're compromised intellectually, yet beneath the surface you can get a good impression of how Houellebecq views the publishing industry, celebrityism and wider issues and furthermore, correcting outlandish misinterpretation stroke
Michel Houellebecq
Date of publication: 2010
Publisher: Vintage
Duration: 291 pages
Winner of the 2010 Prix Goncourt
- - -
Observing the world of art and celebrity under the Houellebecq microscope - the result is: 'The Map and the Territory'; a collaborative journey of the world of quirks, ills and utter nonchalance through the eyes of artist Jed Martin. Not forgetting the inflated fortunes and the weariness of reinvention and the cuckoo need to make sense of visual exploration - all for the sake of art. Oh, and Michel Houellebecq, the author who wrote 'Atomised' features as a character.
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'The world is weary of me, and I am weary of it.' - Charles d'Orléans
So far the twenty-first century as gone to plan in …show more content…
Indeed, romance therefore is a stone throw away, not in the 'Mills and Boon' meaning of course purely because Houellebecq doesn't deliver on grandiloquent content, whereby infatuations / adoration has the legs to be infinite. Dalliances are as clinical as a 'Michelin' map print procedure; only when the mist clears you're aware of the empty cupboard, the cold night chill. What Houellebecq is a master of is the depiction of self-made hubris; the ability to keep the reader guessing... in 'The Map and the Territory' scenario - one moment, can provide you an entirely different pathway, in riches and loves. The beauty of this novel is it can create a spark in the most emotionless of readerships, I found myself actually caring whether 'the little French man' (Jed Martin) was going to walk the route to eternal happiness, or fade inwardly, philosophising over the works of William Morris, just as his father Jean-Pierre did. Onlookers will experience a strain of sorrowful circumstances throughout the novel; again vintage Michel Houellebecq; however, you cannot dismiss the self-parody, the ritual wit, and the idioms that cradles ones' familiarity; this is why I'll continue to be fascinated. He triumphs his own glib as a writer, and rightly so. This'll infuriate a demographic who're compromised intellectually, yet beneath the surface you can get a good impression of how Houellebecq views the publishing industry, celebrityism and wider issues and furthermore, correcting outlandish misinterpretation stroke