by Michel Houellebecq · French and European Publications Inc · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782290069905
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«La Possibilité d'une île» is Michel Houellebecq's speculative novel published in paperback (446 pages, in French).
In the twenty-first century, a sect promising immortality has replaced traditional religions; its members, as they age, commit suicide leaving DNA and a life story and are cloned every fifty years. The story alternates the voice of Daniel, a stand-up comedian, with that of his clones and reflects on love, solitude and eternal life.
The work was originally published in 2005; this paperback edition appeared in 2013. It is Houellebecq's fourth novel and won the Prix Interallié.
For readers of literary fiction and dystopias, with an interest in a critical look at immortality and love.
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.
