antw. Re: antw. light summer reading

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

* i just read the elementarteilchen and it's - superbe. "desperate" and 
"insane", sure ... in this regard like gr. the novel points out the ambivalences 
of the post-60s liberation (like the sexual quasi-darwinism in alternative 
communities). in this it does a pretty good sociological job. and then - this is 
of course a great difference to gr - houellebecq writes so clear and 
suspensefully that i read the book very quickly. and this is the main reason why 
i feel it to be a light and pleasurable summer reading. what really interests 
me: why do you think the guy to be a "coward"? i don't know many people who, 
these days, would dare to say in public that they consider islam to be "the most 
stupid religion of all which could have been invented only by fellows hanging 
around in the desert with nothing better to do than to fuck their camels". just 
a couple of days ago al quaida dropped eminem a note that one wasn't amused 
about the bin laden posing in the "without me" video: slim shady hired more 
bodyguards and even called official authorities. michel still walks alone.

à bientôt! kai ***        


Clément Levy schrieb:
> Well, you could try, but i'm afraid it's not worth it. This guy has no 
> style except he chooses the ugly (in his language as in his plots). I only 
> read his first novel (Extension du domaine de la lutte), but the struggle 
> (lutte) really should turn to be against him, not against what he thinks 
> our contemporean values are. Because his struggle against them is 
> desperate, coward and insane. In this first novel, he tells about consumer 
> society in sex affairs. Some people have a great capital, lovers and so on, 
> some other don't. So why not try to give someone the pleasures they are 
> frustrated of, even by violent ways, by pushing them to rape and murder? 
> This is what he writes about (should i say write?). Of course his ideas are 
> a critic against Sexual liberation or so. But he first wants to attract 
> readers by horrible stories about sex. His last novel: a trip to Thailand 
> with childrenfuckers, in which the hero meets the woman he'll love. I only 
> heard about it, and not much because 09/11 came just after this book was 
> published... Many people found it attractive just because of these young 
> protitutes. It must be rubbish. I won't try. I must read GR or Vineland 
> before!
> Bye-bye.
> Clément
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> lorentzen-nicklaus à dit à Òantw. light summer readingÓ.
> [2002/06/26 12:07:43]
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> > * try --- michel houellebecq: les particules élémentaires [1998]
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> >  (dtsch. elementarteilchen. münchen 2001: list taschenbuch)
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> > it's straight, funny, and full of valid observations on contemporary 
> > continental 
> > life. one pynchonesque thing about it is the use of natural-scientific 
> > key 
> > metaphors. best french writer since céline ... kfl ***
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