Contributions

  • Bowd, Gavin, 1966- translator - Contributor
  • Houellebecq, Michel - Contributor

Publication

2017 - , New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

80,250 words, Guess

Page Count

321 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100374279640
  • ISBN-139780374279646
  • ISBN-139780374716936
  • ISBN-100374716935
  • Library of Congress Control Number2017003856
and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number985974389
  • Better World Books9780374279646
  • Better World Books9780374716936
  • Open LibraryOL26978206M

Classifications

  • DDC841/.914
  • LCCPQ2668.O77 A2 2017
  • LCCPQ2668.O77A2 2017

Description

Selected poems from the critically acclaimed author of Submission and The Elementary Particles. A selection of poems chosen from four collections of one of France's authors, Unreconciled shines a fresh light on Michel Houellebecq and reveals the radical singularity of his work. Drawing on themes that are similar to the ones in his novels, these poems are a journey into the depths of individual experience and universal passions. Divided into five parts, Unreconciled forms a narrative of love, hopelessness, catastrophe, dedication, and--ultimately--redemption. In a world of supermarkets and public transportation, indifferent landscapes and lonely nights, Houellebecq manages to find traces of divine grace even as he exposes our inexorable decline into chaos. Told through forms and rhythms that are both ancient and new, with language steeped in the everyday, Unreconciled stands in the tradition of Baudelaire while making a bold new claim on contemporary verse. It reveals that in addition to his work as an incisive novelist, Houellebecq is one of our most perceptive poets with a vision of our era that brims with tensions that cannot--and will not--be reconciled.

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Other Editions

  • Unreconciled2017

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