Good books to read. "The Map and the Territory" by Michel Houellebecq
A straight, descriptive language that understands what he says. This is the style of "The Map and the Territory" by Michel Houellebecq . The humor is clearly highlighted in it, both intruded and entangled in the sentences, as if no added value, but part of "that's the way". This makes the reading of the book sophisticated intellectual pleasure. But that's not what I left of it. When it ended, I continued to carry the image of the protagonist, the artist, Jed Martin, as a failed marriage candidate and a lonely reflection of a dozen my lonely acquaintances. Why does not Jed make an effort to be with the blinding Russian Olga when her work forced her to leave outside France? Because that would be in contradiction with his personality. The personality of the modern self-sufficient man. Jed is a man who does not know why women like him. He does not have to conquer them. He is locked in painting and shooting, the result of which he can not judge by himself. A person who lives only among the things born of him and seems like everyone else is oddly not from his world - his father, his girlfriends, his home, his exhibits. He does not try to manage even his own fate - beyond the creation of his works - but she is gracious to him. This person must remain passive while being persistently offered love. He feels whole when he is alone with himself. I wonder if I'm from the last generation, which sounds strange to me. Many of my acquaintances, younger, do not have the need for a partner. The woman is getting later. They achieve other goals. They do not want to keep in touch with someone to hang around their lives. The book ends naturally, with a natural ending. Jed manufactures original visual works of decaying things that the plant absorbs and erases, in one with his grave. Everything to come to an end without transferring links to the future - naturally, that's the way things are. Hopeless. Children, heritage, charitable wills of riches - that would give a little hope. And perhaps the book was a bit untrue to the times it describes. And a little more suitable for romantic souls.
Drawing in the image of Martin the image of the modern man of art, a man not adapted to life, but in his sensible and holistic awareness of the world around him and his worthlessness in it, Houellebecq contrasts him with images of heroes of different generations and views-father, girlfriends, police commissioner. But in the gallery of outrunning events, these images are clearly not enough. And here the masterful literary device is to enter the stage as one of the heroes of Houellebecq himself, under his own name, with his own life position, which may differ from the position of the real Houellebecq (we do not know), but ideally coincides in the novel with life inadvertence and loneliness most Martin. And the terrible death of the author-hero is just a literary device to increase the impact on the reader of the hermit's life of Martin, which happened after the wealth that fell on him.
The author draws us a bright picture of the near future of the European future, which he wants to see, which lives the aged Martin, partly to the creation of this future is involved. And this is the little thing that gives us hope for the creative role of modern art in the life of a modern European man, the hope is very illusory if we look at it through the prism of modern reality.
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Thank you very much :)
thanks i'll read it and leave my opinion down here when I finish
Okey, very nice :)
Interesting... Jed, seems like quite a character...
it is based on history ??
I loved Atomised.... will look out for this at the local bookstore.