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You've made a factual error in the following paragraph. Although it may seem minor, many critics think it's a key to his misanthropy. He does *not* live with his mother. In fact, his mother was a hippie who abandoned him to his grandmother at a very young age and never returned to raise him or even get to know him. Thus, his hatred for free-wheeling selfish hippies. I have not read the book, but it sounds like you haven't done very good homework. Also, there seems to be more problems with this paragraph when you write "not unlike like the woman..." Is that grammatical?
Houellebecq, who lives with his mother, is clearly not a well man (judging not only from the novel, but from his having propositioned in the most vulgar way the New York Times Magazine journalist who came to visit him). One can only assume that the frustrated adolescent science student bitterness that marks his characters' relations to women is a reflection of a long-stewed rancor of his own. Reading The Elementary Particles, I kept thinking that it was very much like A Confederacy of Dunces, only without the humor — not unlike like the woman of whom Oscar Wilde remarked, "She resembled a peacock in everything but beauty."
--mb
10/28 |
in the homepage highlight: "chose" should be feminine.
in the essay: "grande" should be plural
--oui
10/23 |
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