by Michel Houellebecq · J'ai lu · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782290032039
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«La carte et le territoire» is the novel by Michel Houellebecq published by J'ai lu in paperback (413 pages, in French).
Jed Martin, an artist, succeeds with his photographs of Michelin maps and portraits of personalities, including the writer Michel Houellebecq. The plot interweaves his relationship with his architect father, his love for Olga, and a criminal investigation, and in the background addresses art, money, death, work, and France turned into a tourist destination.
Winner of the 2010 Prix Goncourt. This J'ai lu edition, published in 2012, belongs to the Littérature française collection and includes the complete text in French.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in current French narrative and in reading Houellebecq in his original version.
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.
