by Michel Houellebecq · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433977045
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«El mapa y el territorio» is the novel by Michel Houellebecq, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (384 pages, in Spanish).
The protagonist, Jed Martin, is an artist who achieves fame with his photographic series: first Michelin road maps and then portraits of personalities in their workplace, including Houellebecq himself. The plot follows his relationship with his father, his story with Olga, and his collaboration with Inspector Jasselin on a criminal case. A reflection on art, money, love, and death.
It won the Prix Goncourt and is inspired by the original French novel «La carte et le territoire». It is part of Anagrama's Compactos Collection (number 602). Translation by Jaime Zulaika.
Recommended for readers of contemporary French literature and for those seeking an award-winning novel that combines social portrait, satire, and mystery.
Michel Houellebecq is a French author of novels, poems, and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker, and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Houellebecq published his first novel Whatever in 1994 and his second, Atomised, in 1998, to international fame as well as controversy. He has published several books of poetry, including The Art of Struggle in 1996.
