Atmosfera hipermarketu społecznego. Architektura w powieściach Michela Houellebecqa
The Atmosphere of Social Hypermarket. Architecture in Michel Houellebecq’s Novels

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns the use of architecture in the novels of Michel Houellebecq. The aim of the article is to analyse the role played by the architectural and urbanistic motifs in Map and Territory and What-ever – two of the most important of the writer’s novels. According to the author of the article those motifs are not merely the background of the story or ideas presented in the novels, but they play an active role in creat-ing the most vital elements of the works’ atmosphere: the feeling of exhaustion and mischievousness of mod-ernist ideals and the mood of civilisational decay.

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