Soumission
by Michel Houellebecq · first published 2015
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It’s 2022. François is bored. He’s a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famed nineteenth-century novelist associated with the Decadent movement. But François’s own decadence is of considerably smaller scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, and watches YouPorn. Meanwhile, it’s election season, and in an alliance with the Socialists, France’s new Islamic party sweeps to power―and Islamic law is instituted. Women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged, and François is offered an irresistible academic advancement―on the cond
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Michel Houellebecq is a true prophet. From his novel Atomised to The Possibility of an Island (metaphor for social media) to Soumission, he's been years ahead re zeitgeist and social climate since the 90s.
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