After the relative disappointment had made "the possibility of an island", a great find, in a very large Houellebecq "map and territory" is an immense joy: 400 pages devour in one gulp, as would a banal thriller with American, except that here it is the extreme pleasure of writing to the sublime fluidity and an amazing story to our intelligence that guides and accelerates the beating of our heart. What speaks "map and territory"? Not easy to say, actually ... Everything and anything, our destinies inviduels son who lost their fathers, lovers who missed the beloved without making a drama so far, human beings clueless about death ... but also the transition from capitalism to ... something else, and the impact of this development on French society. The status of the object in the culture of the XXI century. How art is invented, before sale. Vanity of literature - a vanity that the book contradicts brilliantly. Etc. etc. In fact, with its textual times of Wikipedia, his break étonnnant shaped with serial killer thriller, the hilarious inclusion of real characters, setting cruel scene by Houellebecq's own life (?) And its future death " the map and the territory "is a teeming jungle fiction closer to our reality, a mental labyrinth in which we get lost with delight, until the final engulfment. An easy book to read, of course, as though this were a failure: a literary work even more vast that it seems modest.