Coming to Ljubljana on 27 March is the controversial French writer Michel Houellebecq (1958). A graduate in agronomy, he agitated the critical sphere and his readership considerably with his second novel, Atomised (1998), which won him the IMPAC prize. Although primarily an author of autofiction, his novels contain sharp and Balzacian-like exact descriptions of the
Coming to Ljubljana on 27 March is the controversial French writer Michel Houellebecq (1958). A graduate in agronomy, he agitated the critical sphere and his readership considerably with his second novel, Atomised (1998), which won him the IMPAC prize. Although primarily an author of autofiction, his novels contain sharp and Balzacian-like exact descriptions of the turn-of-the-century society and its septic wounds.
The talk will be held in French, with simultaneous interpreting into Slovenian.
In cooperation with Beletrina and Institut français Ljubljana.
