by Michel Houellebecq · Fayard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213625478
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«La possibilité d'une île» is the novel by Michel Houellebecq, published by Fayard in paperback (485 pages, in French).
The novel follows Daniel, a famous stand-up comedian, and his cloned descendant Daniel25 in a distant future. Between social satire and science fiction, Houellebecq explores the search for immortality, cloning, and the meaning of love and desire in a declining Western society.
Winner of the Prix Interallié 2005.
For readers of contemporary and dystopian fiction interested in French literature and the work of Houellebecq.
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.
