This was the time when Houellebecq was not yet a star who found the magic formula of postmodern novel (and commercial). The outcast wrote among other chronic rapid, gathered in this small collection. Neurasthenic, of course, these are not texticules least as cold glances, detached, sometimes comic, always keen on one aspect of modernity. There is no common thread; it is therefore not surprising to go from the migration of retired German silent film of decline through a cutting of pants to Jacques Prévert.
Remember: "Taking Control of Scan" which tells of the beginnings of the reduction of the individual to a series of digital data in the context of sexual exchange ... via Minitel. When we know that this text was written in 1991, one can only be disturbed by his prophetic accents!
