by Michel Houellebecq · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497877305
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«El mapa i el territori» is the novel by Michel Houellebecq, published by Editorial Empúries in paperback (352 pages, in Catalan).
The novel follows Jed Martin, an artist who achieves fame with his photographs of road maps and portraits of personalities. Between his architect father, the Russian Olga, and a criminal case he investigates with Inspector Jasselin, Houellebecq reflects on art, money, love, death, and the transformation of France into a tourist destination.
Winner of the Prix Goncourt, with translation by Oriol Sánchez Vaqué. Part of the Anagrama/Empúries collection.
For readers of contemporary and European fiction, and for followers of Michel Houellebecq's narrative.
Michel Houellebecq is a French author of novels, poems, and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker, and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Houellebecq published his first novel Whatever in 1994 and his second, Atomised, in 1998, to international fame as well as controversy. He has published several books of poetry, including The Art of Struggle in 1996.
