Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:39:08 -0800 marlon from private IP, post #19554523 /all Michel Houellebecq https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Houellebecq Michel Houellebecq is France's most famous and controversial living novelist. Since his first novel in 1994, Houellebecq's work has been called pornographic, racist, sexist, Islamophobic, and vulgar. His caricature appeared on the cover of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015, the day that Islamist militants killed twelve people in an attack on their offices and also the day that his most recent novel, Soumission --the story of France in 2022 under a Muslim president--appeared in bookstores. Without God uses religion as a lens to examine how Houellebecq gives voice to the underside of the progressive ethos that has animated French and Western social, political, and religious thought since the 1960s. Focusing on Houellebecq's complicated relationship with religion, Louis Betty shows that the novelist, who is at best agnostic, "is a deeply and unavoidably religious writer." In exploring the religious, theological, and philosophical aspects of Houellebecq's work, Betty situates the author within the broader context of a French and Anglo-American history of ideas--ideas such as utopian socialism, the sociology of secularization, and quantum physics. Materialism, Betty contends, is the true destroyer of human intimacy and spirituality in Houellebecq's work; the prevailing worldview it conveys is one of nihilism and hedonism in a postmodern, post-Christian Europe. In Betty's analysis, "materialist horror" emerges as a philosophical and aesthetic concept that describes and amplifies contemporary moral and social decadence in Houellebecq's fiction. Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:01:49 -0800 zerosugar from private IP Reply #12483169 Corsicans are pretty weird people. One of the craziest guys I knew was Corsican. Sat, 29 Nov 2025 09:30:32 -0800 shithead from private IP Reply #10029188 I fucking hate Houllebecq. Sat, 29 Nov 2025 09:30:46 -0800 shithead from private IP Reply #17159035 Houellebecq too. Sat, 29 Nov 2025 10:21:43 -0800 zerosugar from private IP Reply #19165444 many europeans trying to be edgy do love hp Lovecraft. he had a pretty bizarre phenotype tbh. Sat, 29 Nov 2025 10:26:11 -0800 zerosugar from private IP Reply #11851721 Thread on HP Lovecraft. He was the product of a type of New England that no longer exists. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1jl4mbf/how_bad_was_hp_lovecraft_racism_and_mental_issues/ Sat, 29 Nov 2025 10:30:45 -0800 zerosugar from private IP Reply #12685245 Did you know H.P. Lovecraft (20 Aug 1890-15 March 1937) wrote "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" after learning his great-grandmother was Welsh? Lovecraft, though an American, was a royalist and Anglophile who in many ways longed to be English. He once remarked that his 'ancestry was that of unmixed English gentry’. Upon learning that his ancestry was largely made up of Welsh heritage as opposed to English, however, he was so horrified that he fell into a depression and allegedly wrote "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" during this state. Lovecraft held many outdates views and had previously expressed his loathing for the Celts, writing in 1916 that they were: “An inferior race... They could never maintain an orderly existence save under the domination of some branch of the Teutonic master race - if they could leave England, they would have to take Germany as a master; in fact, I am not sure but that they need a few Prussian methods to curb their ebullient & seditious emotions.” It's safe to say I don't wish to claim Lovecraft as Welsh! source: https://www.facebook.com/WelshHistories/posts/did-you-know-hp-lovecraft-20-aug-1890-15-march-1937-wrote-the-shadow-over-innsmo/803173638949524/ https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Llunwy_of_Wales Sat, 29 Nov 2025 16:44:13 -0800 shithead from private IP Reply #14534182 What in the approximate fuck does Lovecraft have to do with this??? Sat, 29 Nov 2025 20:29:15 -0800 zerosugar from private IP Reply #14343832 @shitheadTest SEE WIKI ENTRY Michel Houellebecq (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl wɛlbɛk]; born Michel Thomas on 26 February 1956) is a French author of novels, poems, and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker, and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Houellebecq published his first novel, Whatever, in 1994 and his next novel, Atomised in 1998, which brought him international fame as well as controversy. He has published several books of poetry, including The Art of Struggle in 1996. Mon, 01 Dec 2025 06:04:57 -0800 shithead from private IP Reply #14169914 Whatever. He sucks.Replies require login.
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