by Michel Houellebecq · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475969169
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«Plataforma» is the contemporary fiction novel by Michel Houellebecq, published by Editorial Empúries in paperback (352 pages).
A Parisian civil servant, after his father's death, travels to Thailand and discovers sex tourism. He meets Valérie, a tourism executive, and together they plan resorts where sex is the centre. The novel dissects Western sexual hypocrisy, the commodification of the body and contemporary relationships.
The novel is based on the French original Plateforme (2001); translation by Sergi Matarín López and co-published by Anagrama and Empúries.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in one of Houellebecq's most discussed and lucid works.
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.
