by Michel Houellebecq · J'ai lu · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782290321232
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«Plateforme» is the novel by Michel Houellebecq, published by J'ai lu in paperback (352 pages, in French).
Michel, an employee of the French Ministry of Culture, travels to Thailand after his father's death. There he meets Valérie, an executive at a travel agency, and becomes involved in a sex tourism project. With irony and rawness, Houellebecq addresses loneliness, globalization and the hedonism of Western society.
The work was originally published in 2001; this paperback edition appeared on October 3, 2002.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in a critical look at tourism, desire and Western society.
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.
