Whatever - Brossura

The balance between philosophy and narrative detail is perfectly judged; the book slips down easily like a bad oyster. As is the nature of such things, it is grimly comic (Nicholas Lezard Guardian)

The mischief-making enfant terrible of new-wave French fiction (Independent)

Le grand fromage du jour (The Face)

It could well turn out to be a cult here too... Astonishing (Time Out)

Snappy, bite-sized, and often very funny. Is it European exhaustion? Is it the soul of man under late capitalism? Millenial gloom? Post-Christian despair? Is it the Death of Love? Whatever. But Houellebecq describes it perfectly (Literary Review)

Funny, terrifying and nauseating (Independent)

This boy needs serious therapy. He may be beyond help (Washington Post)

Michel Houellebecq is co-founder of the influential magazine Perpendiculaire.