Roman 20-50, n°66/décembre 2018

The book offers various analyzes on the last two novels La Carte et le territoire and Soumission published respectively in 2010 and 2015. La Carte et le territoire published by Flammarion received the Goncourt prize and the reception of this work was unanimous to praise the success of the novel witch composes sense of observation and desperate humor. Michel Houellebecq, in a very puzzling way, reflects himself as character. The writer delivers brilliant reflection on the place of art today. The last novel Soumission aroused deep controversies. It is a science-fiction novel and a political fiction. The author tells in this fiction the arrival in power in France of a muslim party. Far from the media row to their publication, these novels required to be analyzed by researchers specialized in the writer to restore all the stakes.