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Informationen zum Autor Michel Houellebecq Klappentext Just thirty, with a well-paid job, no love life and a terrible attitude, the anti-hero of this grim, funny novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until he's packed off with a colleague to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system Houellebecq's first novel was a smash hit in France, expressing the misanthropic voice of a generation. His bitter, sarcastic and exasperated narrator vociferously expresses his frustration and disgust with the world. 'The mischief-making enfant terrible of new-wave French fiction' Independent Zusammenfassung A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until he's packed off with a colleague - the sexually-frustrated Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system.

Product details

• Authors: Michel Houellebecq
• Assisted by: Paul Hammond (Translation)
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.05.2011
• EAN: 9781846687846
• ISBN: 978-1-84668-784-6
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Serpent's Tail Classics; Serpent's Tail Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature