02440nam 2200493 450 991079532900332120240110012126.090-04-49813-310.1163/9789004498136(MiAaPQ)EBC6808246(Au-PeEL)EBL6808246(CKB)19919454200041(OCoLC)1259586973(nllekb)BRILL9789004498136(EXLCZ)991991945420004120240110d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMichel Houellebecq, the Cassandra of Freedom Submission and Decline /edited by Michael S. Kochin and Alberto SpektorowskiFirst edition.Leiden, Netherlands :Brill,[2022]©20221 online resource (233 pages)Faux Titre Series ;Volume 454Print version: S. Kochin, Michael Michel Houellebecq, the Cassandra of Freedom Boston : BRILL,c2021 9789004498129 Includes bibliographical references and index.On 7 January 2015, the day of the murderous attack on the offices of the Paris satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo , the cover of the current issue showed a drunken Michel Houellebecq in a wizard's cap making two prophecies: "In 2016 I will lose my teeth. In 2022 I will observe Ramadan." Houellebecq had previously described Islam as "the stupidest of religions." But on that day, as terrorists sought to bring the justice of Islam to blasphemers for whom Michel Houellebecq was insufficiently anti-Islamic, Houellebecq's novel Submission , depicting the democratic conquest of France by the Muslim Brotherhood, was published by Flammarion. In this collection, an international cast of authorities on politics and literature discuss the meaning and unprecedented impact of Michel Houellebecq's Submission.Faux Titre Series ;Volume 454.Nihilism in literatureFranceIntellectual life21st centuryNihilism in literature.745.05Kochin Michael Shalom1970-Spektorowski Alberto1952-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910795329003321Michel Houellebecq, the Cassandra of Freedom3681476UNINA