/lit/ - Literature

Whatever by Houellebecq is the closest I have read. There is also that one diary of the chad who became paralyzed after a motorcycle accident and committed suicide because of the nosedive in quality of life.
4chan canon automatons will probably also recommend Book of Disquiet.
please nothing like this:
"no longer human" (he believed in something once, lost),
> "My Twisted World" (he believed he was a supreme being bringing justice)
> "Notes from Underground" (he believed he was transcended and above normal society)
anything besides these? something not everyone here has already heard of??

>>12468603
Houelebecq - Whatever

>>12241689

im reading pic rel. some of the pages have a star on the bottom. what do they mean?

is it just to mark where all the atomic blackpills are dropped?

>>12181797

I'd like to discuss Houellebecq's debut novel "Whatever" / "Extension of the Domain of the Struggle".

I have just re-read the first several opening chapters and noticed the great subtlety of his work which he hides skillfully behind humour or dry observations.

Examples:

>the lost car
On face value we could accept the narrator has lost his car, but I believe he is referring also to his "drive", perhaps even his libido. We learn early on that his car has "given me nothing but trouble" and asks "What good's this car?" when considering forgetting about finding it. But a few chapters later while being criticized by his boss the narrator explains to him about his lost car, to which his Chad boss weirdly responds with enormous sympathy: "He didn't know; couldn't have guessed: now he understands".

The book itself is riddled with metaphor, most clearly with the animal stories, and the car is a central one I believe. Notice that Tisserand dies because, like Bruno in Atomised, his "drive" is so unwieldy that it ends up killing him.

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