The possibility dune island / Michel Houellebecq / Price Interallié 2005 Here is a book that can only dampen spirits by his daring both in substance and in form. As Labord this long story is not simple, situate the conditions and the various narrators. With the melting of polar ice and the reduction of the world population of 14 billion seven hundred million dindividus the end of the world came almost dautant the Grand Dewatering continues and causes the progressive disappearance of humanity: the Mediterranean is no longer quune mare Daniel 1 boueuseet the narrator (which must be Houellebecq himself though revisited), remembers his dhumoriste career success, his wife Isabelle and the easy life that he was leading before all these events So Daniel 1 saw at the beginning of XXI century ed and wrote his autobiography, what one calls by law Founders' his life story. " Comedian who knows the fame and wealth, he meets the Elohimites, hedonistic cult to the great breadth of mind combined with a certain permissiveness in every respect, a meeting that will affect his life. He will give his DNA and thereby becomes virtually immortal. "The strict duplication of the genetic code, meditation on the life story of the predecessor, the writing of comments: these were the three pillars of our faith, unchanged since the days of the Founders. " Several centuries later, his cloned descendants, Daniel 23, 24 and 25 read this life story and comment This fourth novel MH uses the theme of cloning and the artificial creation dune new humanity to look critically and to reflect on contemporary society and particularly on the man-woman relationship. First point: with Houellebecq is not sennuie! One can sagacer sometimes, often smile, be positively surprised, but never experience boredom. Entrance one of the favorite themes of MH gives the tempo: "My current incarnation is deteriorating. "This is final. We must live with this idea dune planned obsolescence and inexorable of all things. And the second theme, this is misogyny: "The benefit of a pet dog lies in the fact that it is possible to make him happy; he asks such simple things, his ego is so limited. It is possible Quà earlier times women are found in a comparableproche situation from the pet home. "Here we are attached and without illusions. And to add further: "Women with humor lacking in general, which is why they consider humor as part of manly qualities. " The critical sense of MH never weakens and comedians of all kinds, including that State, (hello lautodérision), take them for their grade: "Ultimately, the benefit of dhumoriste trade, and more generally humorous attitude in life, this is to be able to behave like a bastard with impunity, and even power handsomely profitable abjection in sexual success as cash, all General with the approval. " After comedians, it's the filmmakers who are targeted: "The filmmakers quickly occasion of party games men realize, are not of a very high level: just give them an idea, a situation, a fragment of history, we add a few dialogues, three or four projections at the conet they sémerveillentLes filmmakers sleep with their actresses, this is known; Some films, even, seem not to have essential motivation else. " Provocation is tear favorite MH It helps to retain the attention of the reader about an unsuspected truth or totally incongruous. "As for human rights, of course, I could not care nen; this is only if I could with my tail mintéresser rights. " "The day of the suicide of my son, I made eggs with tomato. A living dog is better than a dead lion quun, lEcclésiaste estimated precisely. Navais I never loved this child: he was as stupid as his mother, and as wicked as his father. His disappearance was far from being a catastrophe: human beings like this, we can go sen. " This is Houellebecq, we must do and sy lon is only at the beginning of the book !! Then the couple is targeted: "Loneliness is hell two consented" And after is the turn of writers such as Sartre, Genet, Teilhard de Chardin or Céline BE reduced to nonentities. Only in his eyes find favor Johann Sebastian Bach, Samuel Barber, and Agatha Christie. Western society is the object of a special treatment: "Increasing the desires linsoutenable up while making their realization increasingly inaccessible, this was the only principle on which Western society. " And further following the 2003 heat wave: "Scenes unworthy of a modern, evidence that France was becoming a modern country that only a truly modern country was able to treat the elderly as pure waste, quun such contempt ancestors would have been inconceivable in Africa, or in traditional Asian countries. " The narrator is critical of this society but not only with insight and discernment but a cleaner and disapproving humor. As for the design of love, this is to want to flee: "Lamour makes low, and the lower of the two is oppressed, tortured and finally killed by the other which in turn oppress; torture and kill without thinking of evil, without even experience pleasure; with complete indifference; this is what men usually call love. " Yet "no more discussed topic nest that love in human life stories as in the literary corpus that they subject us laisséAucun sum seems to have much preoccupied hommesLamour seems to have been for humans to lultime Lacmé period and the impossible , regret and grace, the focal point which could concentrate all suffering and all joy. " On religion: "Never, at any time in human history, religion navait lascendant able to take on the masses sadressant only reason. " This is very well said. And yet he is going to meet Belle aka Esther. And there will begin a period of his fabulous life, dune sexually incredibly rich speaking, that he describes in great detail of a burning eroticism. After SETRE somehow off steam by laying the foundations of his story, MH us into the thick of it lemprise namely the world of Elohimite confession Amazing and monumental narrative that begs many questions about the future of humanity. What men will we be in 3000 years? Neo-humans, autotrophic things like plants, leading an existence devoid of anagogical passions or bloodthirsty savages dressed in animal skins back to the age of stone, caricature residue of the worst tendencies of ordinary humanity? The neo-humans of this novel will our descendants? Or will it wild? And that will be the Future announced? A surprising and fascinating book.
