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  • Art in all its forms  

    The map and the territory (Paperback)
    In this novel, winner of the Prix Goncourt 2010, there isnt one story but many. Jed Martin, the main character, is an extraordinary artist. First of Michelin maps photographer, he then became a painter in full exercise of their profession personaliti
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  • consensual pastiche  

    The map and the territory (Paperback)
    Two stars, one for Jed Martin, hero of the book and one for his clone that Houellebecq portrays dérision.Grosse without any self-deception: in truth I expected a little. Houellebecq should win the Goncourt for the excellent and visionary "platform&qu
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  • READ THE AGE WALL  

    The map and the territory (Paperback)
    The author of the elementary particles has become trendy because it captures the spirit of the time, without qualms. In a disillusioned society, including sociologists boast licensed to declare that it has lost its bearings (what is termed, lately, v
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  • Good Houellebecq  

    The map and the territory (Paperback)
    This book is an engaging description of the life of a character of our time to our future. Anticipation is pleasant even if I do not share his vision.Au through characters, each of us can find comparison points. The end is finally strange and I wonde
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  • All in the country !!!  

    The map and the territory (Paperback)
    As much as I enjoyed the first part dedicated to Jed, the artist, his work and the world in which it operates, as I yawned in the second, a banal thriller, which is not my cup of tea . So I rejoiced to find Jed in the epilogue. The pen is less sharp
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  • A good plan  

    The map and the territory (Paperback)
    Michel Houellebecq, Michel Thomas born in Reunion in 1956 as his birth in 1958 and according to him! His pen name is the maiden name of his paternal grandmother léleva. Michel Houellebecq is a poet, essayist, novelist and film director. Since the lat
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  • A large, very large Houellebecq ...  

    The map and the territory (Paperback)
    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 t
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  • Good wine, good menu, three Michelin stars!  

    The map and the territory (Paperback)
    As phenolphthalein for basic media, Michel Houellebecq is a telling indicator of the French readership: he fired grumpy acid and causes chain reactions when he won the Goncourt. To read the various comments on his latest novel, especially the more se
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  • Pessimistic but funny  

    The map and the territory (Paperback)
    This book moderately interested me and I think I would have enjoyed more if I had not read The Elementary Particles before. Indeed, the two novels have much the same structure even if `The map and the territory is softer, I find HOUELLEBECQ repeats.
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  • The geographical metaphor  

    The map and the territory (Paperback)
    With each new novel, Houellebecq surprises. He never writes what we imagine it will offer us, while each time proof of several constants: a "visionary" lucidity about our time, as discreet as a stripper humor, relevance and coherence on the bott
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  • The reality and its representation  

    The map and the territory (Paperback)
    There are several reasons for loving the new Where is the greenhorn: first, from "Extension" is his first retracted smoothly without controversy (not really sex, no attacks , no particular ideology, a book "soft" and yet deep in sum),
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