by Michel Houellebecq · DuMont · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783832163594
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«Unterwerfung» is the political fiction novel by Michel Houellebecq, published by DuMont in paperback (270 pages, in German).
In a near-future France, François, a university professor specializing in Joris-Karl Huysmans, watches with skepticism the rise of a Muslim party approaching the presidency. The novel follows his personal and existential crisis as the country accepts a change that questions the identity, religion, and values of the West.
This German edition is the translation of the novel 'Soumission' and was published in 2016.
Recommended for readers of contemporary political fiction interested in the debate on identity, religion, and the future of Europe.
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.
