The Existential Crisis of an Individual and a Voluntary Confronted Reader (Michel Houellebecq - Battlefield Expansion) Cover Image

Existenciálna kríza jednotlivca a dobrovoľne konfrontovaný čitateľ (Michel Houellebecq – Rozšíření bitevního pole)
The Existential Crisis of an Individual and a Voluntary Confronted Reader (Michel Houellebecq - Battlefield Expansion)

Author(s): Gabriel Lukáč
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, French Literature
Published by: Lingvokulturologické a prekladateľsko-tlmočnícke centrum excelentnosti pri Filozofickej fakulte Prešovskej university v Prešove (LPTCE)
Keywords: Michel Houellebecq; Whatever; contemporary French prose; confrontation; polemic; cynicism; existential crisis; sexuality; loneliness;

Summary/Abstract: It was 1994 when Michel Houellebecq wrote his first novel. There are not so many authors, which are able to invoke so intense and ambivalent reactions of either literary enthusiasts or critics at the same time. The obvious reason of such ambivalence, but also a universal quality of Houellebecq as a writer, is his capability of creating the text stylistically direct, without admitting any compromises. This is what makes the style of the book almost shockingly simple, but also with very important and more complex philosophical message, present on higher sematic levels of the text. Our aim is to describe and reconsider functionality of its particular elements in the process of literary communication.

  • Issue Year: 5/2014
  • Issue No: 17-18
  • Page Range: 0-0
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Slovak, Czech