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List of contents
1. Jacques Prévert is a jerk
2. The Mirage by Jean-Claude Guiguet
3. Approaches to distress
4. Staring into the distance: in praise of silent cinema
5. Interview with Jean-Yves Jouannais and Christophe Duchâtel
6. Art as peeling
7. Creative absurdity
8. The party
9. Time out
10. Opera bianca
11. Letter to Lakis Proguidis
12. The question of paedophilia
13. Humanity, the second stage
14. Empty heavens
15. I have a dream
16. Neil Young
17. Interview with Christian Authier
18. I don't love myself
19. Sky, earth, sun
20. Leaving the twentieth century
21. Philippe Muray in 2002
22. Towards a semi-rehabilitation of the hick
23. Conservatism, a source of progress
24. Prolegomena to positivism
25. I'm normal. A normal writer
26. I have read my whole life long
27. Soil cutting
28. The lost text
29. Interview with Frédéric Beigbeder
30. A remedy for the exhaustion of being
31. Interview with Marin De Viry and Valérie Toranian
32. Interview with Agathe Novak-Lechevalier
33. Emmanuel Carrère and the problem of goodness
34. Donald Trump is a good president
35. Conversation with Geoffroy Lejeune
36. A bit worse. A response to a few friends
37. The Vincent Lambert affair should not have taken place
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About the author
Michel Houellebecq is a French writer, poet and essayist. His many bestselling books include
Platform,
The Possibility of an Island,
Submission and
Serotonin. He won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2010 and, in 2019, he was awarded the Légion d'honneur, France's highest order of merit.
