by Michel Houellebecq · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782081246331
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«La Carte et le Territoire» is the novel by Michel Houellebecq, published by Flammarion in paperback (428 pages, in French).
The novel follows Jed Martin, an artist who photographs Michelin road maps and achieves success with portraits of professionals, including the writer Michel Houellebecq. His relationship with Olga and his help to Inspector Jasselin in a criminal investigation structure themes such as art, money, love, death, and the relationship with the father.
Winner of the 2010 Prix Goncourt, the novel was originally published in France in September 2010.
For readers of contemporary fiction and French literature interested in the art world and social criticism.
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.
