by Michel Houellebecq · Serpent's Tail · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781846687846
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«Whatever» is the literary fiction novel by Michel Houellebecq, published by Serpent's Tail in paperback (256 pages, in English).
A thirty-year-old computer engineer, depressed and with no love life, narrates his routine and a trip to train civil servants on a new computer system. With a cynical eye, Houellebecq portrays alienation, loneliness and the emptiness of relationships in a society dominated by science and everyday rituals, with black humour.
Novel originally published in French as «Extension du domaine de la lutte» (1994). This English edition (2011) belongs to the Serpent's Tail Classics collection, with translation by Paul Hammond and introduction by Toby Litt.
Aimed at readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in European narrative with philosophical weight and social satire.
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.
