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Interventions 2020 / Michel Houellebecq ; translated by Andrew Brown.
Van Pelt Library PQ2668.O77 I6713 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Houellebecq, Michel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Houellebecq, Michel.
- Houellebecq, Michel--Interviews.
- Philosophy.
- philosophy.
- Medical Subjects:
- Philosophy.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 274 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- English edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Polity Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- A collection of texts and interviews from the last three decades. Here he explains and elaborates his point of view, discusses his novels and addresses a wide range of topics from politics, religion and literature to suicide, euthanasia and paedophilia.
- Contents:
- Jacque Prèvert is a jerk
- The Mirage by Jean-Claude Guiguet
- Approaches to distress
- Staring into the istance: in praise of silent cinema
- Interview with Jean-Yves Jouannais and Christophe Duchâtelet
- Art as peeling
- Creative absurdity
- The party
- Time out
- Opera Bianca
- Letter to Lakis Proguidis
- The question of paedophilia
- Humanity, the second state
- Empty heavens
- I have a dream
- Neil Young
- Interview with Christian Authier
- Technical consolation
- Sky, earth, sun
- Leaving the twentieth century
- Philippe Muray in 2002
- Towards a semi-rehabilitation of the hick
- Conservatism, a source of progress
- Prolegomena to positivism
- I'm normal, a normal writer
- I have read my whole life long
- Soil cutting
- The lost text
- Interview with Frédéric Beigbeder
- A remedy for the exhaustion of being
- Interview with Marin De Viry and Valérie Toranian
- Interview with Agathe Novak-Lechevalier
- Emmanuel Carrère and the problem of goodness
- Donald Trump is a good president
- Conversation with Geoffroy Lejeune
- A bit worse, a response to a few friends
- The Vincent Lambert affair should not have taken place.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1509549951
- 9781509549955
- OCLC:
- 1263271013
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