Whatever

[Anonymous No.13452369]

What the fuck, Houellebecq
>The only refuge from the bitter reality of the hierarchical systems of power and sex is to create a closed system with another individual; in a word, love.
>Have you considered having sex?
>Would you have sex with me?
>No.

[Anonymous No.13452497]

He dies at the end btw.

[Anonymous No.13452648]

>>13452497
Not op, you just ruined a book for me, i was halfway through guess i'm gonna have to throw it away now.

[Anonymous No.13453768]

>>13452497
So the book ending is different from the film? The film ending actually had some truth because it shows that when you stop giving a shit and start doing what you enjoy you end up meeting someone compatible enough naturally. Tisserand was pathetic to watch because he tried too hard and had no characterization beyond that he really wanted to get his dick wet, at least in the movie alone.

[Anonymous No.13453805]

>>13452648
sounds like you shouldn't read at all

[Anonymous No.13453809]

>>13452497
No he doesn't

[Anonymous No.13453853]

>>13453768
I honestly don’t remember the ending, but Houellebecq insists on that fact that Tisserand can’t get laid because of how he looks. It’s not a question of attitude or character in the book, although Tisserand is a failure in these respects as well

[Anonymous No.13453857]

>>13452369
I ain't no Houellebecq giiiiiiiiiiirl

[Anonymous No.13453949]

Love scrolling through /lit/ and seeing a Houellebecq thread. I will now eat some cheese and a nice Pouilly Fumé while thinking about the orgasmic transcendence of ejaculation.

[Anonymous No.13453971]

Real life tisserands really are offputting. Attractive people that act similar are just odd or weird in our concious. God hates the ugly

[Anonymous No.13454321]

>>13453805
i agree, i'm killing myself in a couple of days

[Anonymous No.13454329]

>>13454321
Then the ending isn't important to you.

[Anonymous No.13454357]

>>13454329
it's a short book, was planning on finishing it before the fact.

[Anonymous No.13454420]

>>13454321
don't make anyone miss you like Michel misses Clément, anon

[Anonymous No.13454437]

>>13454420
i don't care much about that, but nobody likes me anyway besides my family

[Anonymous No.13454456]

So did our boy Tizzy an hero or was it a legitimate accident?

[Anonymous No.13454532]

Houellebecq was an agricultural engineer for the first 30 or 40 years of his life, wtf was that like and why has he not written a book about farming?

[Anonymous No.13454541]

>>13454420
Why he looks like shit now?

[Anonymous No.13454568]

>>13454541
the dog death fucked him up

[Anonymous No.13454574]

>>13454568
that was a cute doggo desu

[Anonymous No.13454587]

>>13454532
Really?
I always got city guy vibes from him, guess he learned to hide his rural/ suburban retard traits well

[Anonymous No.13454588]

>>13454568
This. He really loved him
http://www.schirn-peace.org/en/post/michel_houellebecq_salle_clement_01/

[Anonymous No.13454602]

>>13453768
>The film ending actually had some truth because it shows that when you stop giving a shit and start doing what you enjoy you end up meeting someone compatible enough naturally.

Have some Reddit gold for your wisdom, good sir.

[Anonymous No.13454666]

>>13454602
I think that’s true though. The first step to getting gf is to not care whether or not you’ve got one

[Anonymous No.13454696]

>>13454666
Upvoted.

[Anonymous No.13454710]

>>13454541
Different person, product of whatever the french equivalent agency to cia/mossad is, new guy is an actor with imdb page (google it)

[Anonymous No.13454987]

How is this the same person? Also, can anyone make this into a before /lit/, after /lit/ meme?
t. phoneposter

[Anonymous No.13455273]

>>13454532
there's a bunch of stuff about cows, milk, cheese, and suicidal farmers in Sérotonine

[Anonymous No.13455304]

>>13454532
>>13454587
No he wasn't. He studied agriculture at university, then went to film school, then was unemployed for years before finding a job working on the computers at the institute of agriculture. He does however mention agriculture and animals etc a lot in his work, especially in Whatever where the main character works for the institute of agriculture and spends his time writing symbolic short stories about Breton cows etc.

[Anonymous No.13455345]

>>13454987
frogs age like shit

[Anonymous No.13455386]

>>13454987
this is what years of depression after becoming red pilled do to a person

[Anonymous No.13455977]

>>13452497
In a way

[Anonymous No.13455980]

>>13454987
cigarettes

[Anonymous No.13455984]

>>13454456
Does it matter? He was just an incel

[Anonymous No.13456250]

>>13452369
Read through this recently, bad timing
>Meet girl, instant attraction
>However, discover she's the archetypal "liberated woman": sleeps around, dyed hair, tattoos, judgmental of men, but behind this she seems like a kind, interesting human being
>We open up to each other, attraction deepens
>Ask her out, says she can't date
>But flirts with me way too hard while we're drinking at a party, tell her this isn't what I want but kiss her
>Ghosted
And I hear that she's using words like "obsession" to describe the feelings I'd had. I think Hollaback isn't too far from the truth in describing love as the naive capacity to believe another human being is something more than they are. He discusses the death of this capacity in the lost generation to which Veronique belongs, but doesn't really describe what happens when there's an excess of idealization. Is it wrong to be able to love people so freely, does it show a lack of self-love?

>>13454456
Accident, but a foreseeable accident. He was blinded by his drive to be desired by a woman, so naturally he died in a fog of self-loathing and sexual frustration while driving.

[Anonymous No.13457243]

>>13454987
if you read his work it immediately makes sense. the man's soul is in a terrible state.

[Anonymous No.13457271]

>>13454987
my nigga needs a haircut and some rest

[Anonymous No.13457278]

>>13454987
20 years of smoking and drugs plus bad lighting and worse hygiene.

[Anonymous No.13457810]

>>13454987
he reminds me of mark e smith

[Anonymous No.13458008]

>>13452497
That's in Elementary Particles

[Anonymous No.13458139]

>>13454532
In a lot of his books, the protagonist works at the Ministry of Agriculture. It's a recurrent theme of his just like chablis wine, Thomas Mann, antipasti and depression.

[Anonymous No.13459753]

>>13456250
>Is it wrong to be able to love people so freely, does it show a lack of self-love?
In my experience - yes. When someone shows that they could become entirely dependent on you, it isn't endearing. It is terrifying. People do insane shit because they "love" someone, whether those quotes are necessary or not. It is difficult enough for most to deal with themselves in this world. True love is something I've never experienced, but I can imagine that it encompasses a kind of trust and good fortune that is exceptionally rare, two people that could indeed go on were they to lose the other, and be stronger for what they gave them. Recently lost some of my best friends because of this. You must be able to do it alone.

[Anonymous No.13459823]

Jose Saramago > Margaret Atwood > Houellebecq > Stephen King

[Anonymous No.13460125]

Just finished The Map and the Territory. LOLed at the Wikipedia acknowledgement at the end. How much research must he do for each novel? How many books on philosophy has he read to have his characters speak with such authority on intellectual matters?