by Michel Houellebecq · Círculo de Lectores, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467246759
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«El mapa y el territorio» is the novel by Michel Houellebecq, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (384 pages, in Spanish).
Jed Martin, an artist obsessed with the image of the world, moves from photographing road maps to portraying personalities in their work environment. The novel interweaves his life with that of Olga, his architect father and a criminal case, and reflects on art, money, love, death and France turned into a tourist destination.
This novel was originally published as «La carte et le territoire», translated by Jaime Zulaika. It won the 2010 Prix Goncourt.
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.
