Malin and (some) pervert.

This is not the best nor the worst of the novels of Houellebecq. But he is smart because he flirts with a recent reality (radical Islam), insidiously, as if nothing had happened, without really taking part. We know the mainspring of the action (the election of an Islamist to the presidency of the republic in 2022), but the author takes from the beginning, his usual clichés (a pessimistic view of the world, the loneliness of quadragénaire part in large cities, sex ...), then the toggle action, we arrive at the heart of the subject. Everything is beautifully described (Houellebecq is a great writer, whatever his detractors say) the author knows enough arcane policy to be credible, he can use crosses paths to avoid boring the reader (eg those pages on this writer, almost forgotten today, JK Huysmans). All this makes reading this book a real treat. To read.