I do not understand the cinema as the mainstream press made about Michel Houellebecq. "Extension of the area of the fight" is the first novel I read Houellebecq and definitely the last. The story is of a total banality, it chronicles the life of an IT framework that loses foot in a society where men are solitary monads; in today's society in all. One has the impression of reading the blog of a drug addict or an alcoholic who épancherait on her brain torment. So the book's plot is nonexistent one passes from one subject to constantly donkey. You get a series of totally unnecessary comments and contribute nothing to the story. I had, from the first page the presentiment relive the nightmare of reading a book or Foenkinos Virginie Despentes. I'm not wrong. Houellebecq n''a absolutely no style. His writing is like all the novels that are now published by hundred packets in bad editors. It closes bored reading (at least in the first 100 pages of ... 160). Result: in the book is only noted for the positive side, a few paragraphs of well written enough scattered here and there which, placed end to end, can represent 2 or 3 nice pages. This is unfortunate because the subject of the book is ambitious and we feel that Houellebecq has grasped the ignominy of liberal society in which we are drowning. But the author has to be up to the task. Here, it is missed. It lacks a Maurice Barres in France; a novel of domestic energy in these troubled times. Houellebecq does offer a very awkward portrait of the era.
We still retain the projections against the liberal horror and depressive loneliness it induces in men and this tasty passage on psychoanalysis (p .. 103): "Psychoanalysts, highly paid, pretentious and stupid, destroy permanently in their so-called patients any ability to love, both mental and physical; they behave in fact true enemies of humanity selfishness school Unforgiven. , psychoanalysis tackles with great cynicism brave girls a little clueless to turn them into vile bitches, a delirious egocentrism, which can not raise a legitimate disgust. It should give no confidence in any case, to women past the hands of psychoanalysts pettiness, egotism, arrogant folly, complete lack of moral sense, chronic inability to love. Here the complete picture of a woman 'analyzed' "
