Michel Houellebecq : Humanity and Its Aftermath
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Michel Houellebecq is perhaps the single most successful and controversial of all contemporary novelists writing in French. Houellebecq has become a global publishing phenomenon: his book...
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Liverpool University Press
2013
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