they certainly do read Frankenstein, particularly nowadays as it is written by a woman so they get forced to read it.
If it's magic it's a very poor, mean and conservative kind of magic that kills curiosity, narrows the possible and ultimately shrinks the world. Perhaps it does create a more basic, safer place to live in but I'd want magic to do the opposite personally.Arguably the essence of magical thinking.
but its a performance, and the pleasure of it is in the performance.
Unsurprising when you learn his parents abandoned him as a baby and his mother ran off to be a hippy and left him with his grandmother.Houellebecq's outlook in The Elementary Particles is eerily similar to the Adam Curtis line.
Hippiedom as origin/cover for cult of self, narcissism of identity, materialism, neoliberalism.
Wait is Particles supposed to be autofictional/autobiographical??Unsurprising when you learn his parents abandoned him as a baby and his mother ran off to be a hippy and left him with his grandmother.
There's a similar dynamic explored in Vineland where one of the hippy characters has a child, eventually can't stand to be in the same room as her and leaves.
he's not been well translatedI just wish Houllebecq's writing was more interesting. It never really surprises or shines, syntactically or linguistically, does it? A bit like Tao Lin, the same misanthropic matter-of-factness interspersed with didacticism, but a bit more flowery a bit less deadpan.
I don't think so. I think it's just partly informed by that experience. I haven't read it though.Wait is Particles supposed to be autofictional/autobiographical??
It's a recurring theme with him in fact. New age cults with something dark inside them.Houellebecq's outlook in The Elementary Particles is eerily similar to the Adam Curtis line.
Hippiedom as origin/cover for cult of self, narcissism of identity, materialism, neoliberalism.
Fair nuff, I can believe it!he's not been well translated
you can always tell - it's when the translator resorts to too many clichés and figures of speech. no french person would write like that.Fair nuff, I can believe it!
Midsomar. True Blood. True Detective. We're obsessed with cults. Mafias too. Hierarchies built atop pure personality. The figureheads charismatic enough to exert gravitational force, pull a whole solar system into orbit.It's a recurring theme with him in fact. New age cults with something dark inside them.
there are a lot of cults about. if you're religious in any way you're one step from a cult. i can remember as a first year university student there were loads of cult recruiters about. erm no one had to tell me that's what they were, i could just tell. preying on the innocent first time away from home.Midsomar. True Blood. True Detective. We're obsessed with cults. Mafias too. Hierarchies built atop pure personality. The figureheads charismatic enough to exert gravitational force, pull a whole solar system into orbit.