How Long to Read Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair

How Long Does it Take to Read Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair by Carole Sweeney

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Widely acknowledged as an important, if highly controversial, figure in contemporary literature, French novelist and poet Michel Houellebecq has elicited diverse critical responses. In this book Carole Sweeney examines his novels as a response to the advance of neoliberalism into all areas of affective human life. This historicizing study argues that le monde houellebecquien is an 'atomised society' of banal quotidian alienation populated by quietly resentful men who are the botched subjects of late-capitalism. Addressing Houellebecq's handling of the 'failure' of the radical thought of '68, Sweeney looks at the ways in which his fiction treats feminism, the decline of religion and the family, as well as the obsolescence of French 'theory' and the Sartrean notion of 'engaged' literature. Reading the world with the disappointed idealism of a contemporary moralist, Houellebecq's novels, Sweeney argues, fluctuate between despair for the world as it is and a limp utopian hope for a post-humanity.

How long is Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair?

Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair by Carole Sweeney is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair aloud.

What Reading Level is Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair?

Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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