Houellebecq Atomised: Humanity's Bleak Future (Video 7)

Few books are as bleak as Houllebecq's Atomised. Between the sexual revolution, the triumph of science, and the death of the old way. But the novel ends ambiguously in that it is not clear if the new humanity toward which Michel points is really a human possibility. The new humanity is immortal and asexual. But there are reasons to think that muddling through is the real possibility.

[marchess]

it was a wonderful lecture series. Also, a lovely choice of a brief snatch of bittersweet cello music as a bumper.

[yosivin]

Thank you for this series. I LOVE his last book. I sum the book that it's hard to live life but it's possible and that all will die in the end.
One of my favorite autor.
Again, thank you very much.

[mat]

very good series, thanks for making it

[agentofinfluence]

A brilliant deconstruction of a great 21 century novel.