Michel Houellebecq: Q&A with His Readers

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What question would you ask Michel Houellebecq? Watch the French writer in this video, where he openly answers questions from his readers about his childhood, his favorite music, his research methods, as well as the relationship between Houellebecq himself and his literary characters. He also shares his advice for writing fearlessly: “There’s a very simple method consisting in convincing oneself that you’ll die before the book comes out and you won’t have to face the consequences.”
Houellebecq shares how he often felt that he was playing a part as a child, to get better integrated where he was: “I was trying to pretend that I was normal and that I shared the same interests and games as my schoolmates. And I was quite successful in that.” Coming from a poor background, he was brought up by his grandparents, who were quite tolerant and not too worried about him. At this point, Houellebecq shares the story of how his grandmother defended him when a neighbour accused him of being odd because he talked to himself: “So you could be strange without being put in the hands of a psychologist immediately.” In continuation of this - at the age of eight or ten - he often vanished for a whole night without anyone being alarmed.
“It’s always less than you think.” Houellebecq feels that people tend to overestimate the part of autobiography, and argues that the more important a character is in terms of the number of pages, the less autobiographical he is: “You can be more or less autobiographical in a minor character, but as soon as the character gets more important there’s either a part of invention or you start mixing some people, just two or three, no more, to create a single character.” When he writes, he often takes off in a real event in his life and wonders what would have happened if he had taken the opposite decision. Finally, poetry has always been significant to Houellebecq, and a great inspiration is the French poet Baudelaire (b.1821-d.1867) to whom he tries to pay his tribute in each book. When Houellebecq began writing poems, he was displeased not to be able to include poetry in his novels. Consequently, he experimented with melting the prose and dissolving it into poetry: “The end of my books, in general, tends to be poetical.”
Michel Houellebecq (b. 1958) is a French writer, poet, and filmmaker, who is particularly known for his controversial novels, which hold up a mirror to the grim truths of contemporary France. His international breakthrough was with ‘Atomised’ (Les Particules Élémentaires, 1998), which became “an instant nihilistic classic”. Other novels include ‘Platform’ (Plateforme, 2001), The Possibility of an Island (La Possibilité d’une Ile, 2005), ‘The Map and the Territory’ (La Carte et le Territoire, 2010), which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt, ‘Submission’ (Soumission, 2015), and ‘Serotonin’ (Sérotonine, 2019). Houellebecq has also published several books of poems, including ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’ (1991), and ‘The Art of Struggle’ (Le sens du combat, 1996). Houellebecq is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Prix Goncourt and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (2002), and in 2019 he was made a Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur.
Michel Houellebecq was on stage with Tore Leifer at the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark in August 2019.
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  • @Tentronic
    @Tentronic3 жыл бұрын

    Houellebecq is the greatest contemporary french writer. His skills to analyse an depict the current problems of the modern society are so accurate that he seems almost frightening...

  • @f.d.6667

    @f.d.6667

    3 жыл бұрын

    Totally agree and that's why it's so interesting that EUC mainstream media has been trying to put him in the "right-wing" corner for a while now. Apparently, he's not aligned very well to the "official" way they are supposed to depict our glorious multi-cultural and oh-so-green future...

  • @Tentronic

    @Tentronic

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@f.d.6667 There are numerous sentences of MH to be meditated... in another video he said that the purpose of modern governments is to take care of the people to maintain them in a regressive childhood state only interested in pleasure and easy life so that they never complain or rebel... (so true in France with the overdevelopped welfare state supported by the islamo-leftists)

  • @cedricduguay8492

    @cedricduguay8492

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Tentronic Pouvez-vous mentionné l'entrevue? / Could you provide a link to watch the interview? Merci

  • @Tentronic

    @Tentronic

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cedricduguay8492 Regardez l'interview de MH sur "de la démocratie en amérique" (j'ai essayé de poster le lien mais ma réponse a été censurée a priori... :-((

  • @lesgoutsetlescouleurs7721

    @lesgoutsetlescouleurs7721

    2 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately, Houellebecq is visionary. I talk about his work here : kzread.info/dash/bejne/n2Zqy5WqnsqsnsY.html

  • @jean-lucjanot9839
    @jean-lucjanot98392 жыл бұрын

    So refreshing to see one of France's current best writers interviewed by a very competent and friendly Dane. Straight to the point, no showboating as it is often the case on Parisian sets.

  • @reiner164
    @reiner1643 жыл бұрын

    One can see that he has a highly creative and brilliant mind. One of the greatest writers of our time.

  • @libatonvhs

    @libatonvhs

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, at first it seems like he struggles to find an answer, he stumbles, and then he comes up with some brilliant thought

  • @johandewindt

    @johandewindt

    2 жыл бұрын

    he is, nice he stopped drinking

  • @Soulzodiac
    @Soulzodiac2 жыл бұрын

    Belle émotion quand il parle de la fin de ses livres et de cette ‘walking ghost phase’ : « Toutes les questions ont été résolues. Il n’y a plus rien à attendre. Il n’y a plus d’enjeu ». Il est au bord des larmes

  • @marcostorrestaboada5502
    @marcostorrestaboada55024 жыл бұрын

    He is the best.

  • @larakauss4063
    @larakauss40633 жыл бұрын

    "Baudelaire is my God"! We love you, Michel.

  • @zob913
    @zob9133 жыл бұрын

    Pourquoi les gens se marrent à chaque réponse de Houellebecq ? Ses réponses ne sont jamais vraiment drôles, juste très honnêtes. À part ça, quel boss ce Michel. La grande classe.

  • @GhemF0X

    @GhemF0X

    2 жыл бұрын

    Il faut voir à quel point les sociétés scandinaves et allemandes sont rongées par le politiquement correct. Donc Houellebecq arrive et sort des phrases sincères et ça crée ce rire à la fois violent et gêné, caractéristique de ces situations

  • @jodaj8050

    @jodaj8050

    Жыл бұрын

    c'est au Danemark et le Danemark n'est pas aussi politiquement correct que, par exemple, la Suède. Houellebecq est apprécié au Danemark pour autre chose qu'en France, précisément pour son ton autodérision et pour son honnêteté.

  • @ErikaCologon_AfricaMedia

    @ErikaCologon_AfricaMedia

    5 ай бұрын

    Rire c’est aussi créer du lien et manifester une connection

  • @Paxmax
    @Paxmax2 жыл бұрын

    I was properly confused for minutes. french and english I'd expect but danish? norweigian? Hang on..? ..but at end it became clearer. Very talented host I might add. As a Swede I recognize him but not to the point of name and all contexts.

  • @bebavirtual
    @bebavirtual2 жыл бұрын

    human to humans , M.H. voice is full od respoect and empathy , he is true care of humansworld person He is intersting other peolple lives .he has open eyes on world full of injustice and greed he is writer which write not for his ambitions but for trying understang plpl in theirs struglers and fallls , like HIM SO MUCH FOR THAT !

  • @ocdef3261
    @ocdef32612 жыл бұрын

    Sincère et profond terriblement humain et attachant , généreux ,intelligent simplement .On n'est juste surpris par sa façon simple de dire des choses exactes , précises , sans effet de manche , sans se faire mousser par sa culture .

  • @mistieblue9
    @mistieblue92 жыл бұрын

    Il a tellement raison sur les agriculteurs! Vraiment cet homme est surdoué!👈👏👈🙏🧡✨

  • @sneed8119
    @sneed81193 жыл бұрын

    seems happy

  • @heekyungkim8147
    @heekyungkim81474 жыл бұрын

    finally. english transition. thanks.🙏🏼

  • @heekyungkim8147

    @heekyungkim8147

    4 жыл бұрын

    TheSwoleBroscientist unfortunately South Korea.

  • @heekyungkim8147

    @heekyungkim8147

    4 жыл бұрын

    TheSwoleBroscientist you can't judge a country by just cover. korea is hyper capitalist country that doesn't really have social security system. there is even saying among korean from common people. we say, Hell korea. you definitely don't see how poor class live in korea. we have really high suicidal rate as well. that itself shows something is very wrong with this country.. roof and food is necessity and it doesn't make people happy. you know Maslow 's hierarchy. i think, we human. we need meaning and purpose in order to be relatively feel ok with life.. which part of the world are you from ?

  • @heekyungkim8147

    @heekyungkim8147

    4 жыл бұрын

    TheSwoleBroscientist I don’t think meaning of life oneself can rely on other people. It can be different by each individual i guess. I am not poor. I have food and roof over my head.

  • @christophedevos3760
    @christophedevos37602 жыл бұрын

    It would be marvelous to have a course in creative writing by Houellebecq. Thank you for this wonderful interview.

  • @littleafterall

    @littleafterall

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think that it would be wonderful for everyone if society stopped institutionalizing arts.

  • @christophedevos3760

    @christophedevos3760

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@littleafterall institutionalizing, in what way? No more art at academies? Or no more subsidizing of art? In the case of Houellebecq : yes, he probably doesn't believe in this kind of method. But I mean: insights in his writing process could be inspiring,perhaps.

  • @nicolastengler6925
    @nicolastengler6925 Жыл бұрын

    Bukowski,schopenhauer,Budelaire,can’t go wrong whit such a mix

  • @michelemercie5676
    @michelemercie5676 Жыл бұрын

    C est mûrement réfléchi ce qu il dit 🙊 j aime bien l entendre et puis il se remet aussi en question et cela je l apprécié et son honnêteté me plaît !

  • @GrigorSamsa
    @GrigorSamsa Жыл бұрын

    If you like Houellebecq, you must read his poems! The book La Poursuite du bonheur is wonderful.

  • @pierrebrunet2284
    @pierrebrunet22842 жыл бұрын

    Sapré Michel ! Ton honneteté intellectuelle est ce qu`il y a de plus beau en ce monde , et c`est pour Ca que j`aime te lire . Je vivais une peine d`amour quand j`ai lu Sérotonine , tu vas plus loins que L.F. Céline , qui est un de mes auteurs préférés . Tu est celui qui creuse plus profond , meme si ca peut faire mal , car le mal a `` L`ame ``est une souffrance que je sent et percois , assez généralisée , surtout en cette humanité , traversant le chaos préfabriqué actuel , la réflexion absente nous précipitant dans l`abysse actuel . Les médias en sont la cause principale et les atroces ( M. Yourcenar ) qui l`orchestrent a tous les niveaux dans tous les secteurs en jouissent car `` Ils `` en ont tous les moyens + I.A qui nous dépasse TOUS a peu pres sans exeption . Voila ! , Michel , ton fidele lecteur , moi , et ce que j`en pense . Les autres ... penser ce que vous voulez , j`ai fais le tour .

  • @ErikaCologon_AfricaMedia
    @ErikaCologon_AfricaMedia5 ай бұрын

    Intemporel et universel.

  • @mariannapapoutsopoulou182
    @mariannapapoutsopoulou182 Жыл бұрын

    Oh, cher Michel! que vous etes adorable...

  • @davidadams6863
    @davidadams68634 жыл бұрын

  • @paulin_672
    @paulin_6724 жыл бұрын

    Attaque de fumée de clope à 33:20

  • @David-uy8ot

    @David-uy8ot

    4 жыл бұрын

    Bien vu !

  • @Asthenar

    @Asthenar

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@David-uy8ot hahaha

  • @bobsbigboy_
    @bobsbigboy_3 жыл бұрын

    Its even better done in Bring the Sun or The Seer by Swans than in child in time

  • @mccainenterprises3468

    @mccainenterprises3468

    13 күн бұрын

    what do u refer to?

  • @alfredolanda9167
    @alfredolanda9167 Жыл бұрын

    Houellebecq es aire fresco en el espacio burocratizado de la escritura

  • @kimkimkim2634
    @kimkimkim26344 жыл бұрын

    Se regarde en vitesse X1.5 sans souci

  • @KidMillions

    @KidMillions

    4 жыл бұрын

    1.25 is more ideal.

  • @rbaixdahmani9806

    @rbaixdahmani9806

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@KidMillions , 1.75 c'est encore trop lent . Il n' a rien à dire Michel Houellebecq . Plus chiant , tu meures .

  • @weekendculturelsurlegyptea9736

    @weekendculturelsurlegyptea9736

    3 жыл бұрын

    Un grand merci, je viens de gagner 20 minutes.

  • @claudioorlandi73
    @claudioorlandi734 жыл бұрын

    Probabilmente il più importante scrittore europeo di questi anni?

  • @f.d.6667

    @f.d.6667

    3 жыл бұрын

    Totally.

  • @jeromelepeule272

    @jeromelepeule272

    Жыл бұрын

    SI!

  • @DidBer
    @DidBer4 жыл бұрын

    Dans la première question transcrite j'entends du mandarin pour les deux derniers mots qui veulent dire "sortir en mer"...

  • @pesnevim1626
    @pesnevim16264 жыл бұрын

    ..Life begins at 50, that is true, in so much it ends at 40... Pretty much what I and my friends believe. It's all downhill my friends and MH nails it.

  • @vividlight
    @vividlight2 жыл бұрын

    “I show the disasters produced by the liberalization of values.” -Michel Houellebecq

  • @michelemercie5676
    @michelemercie5676 Жыл бұрын

    Et en plus il a de l humour !

  • @annemarietartas4073
    @annemarietartas40732 жыл бұрын

    J'aime l'humour pince-sans-rire de Michel Houellebck, mais j'adore l'humour de Céline ; il me fait tordre de rire, que je le lise ou que je l'écoute parler . Jaime ses excès, sa démesure, ses emportements ses dégoûts et ses débordements de plaisirs devant la beauté Ses pamphlets font partie de son style flamboyant, au contraire, au fond de lui-même, il admirait ce peuple qui excelle en lout, la littérature, la science, la musique, la finance, et qui nous a offert la plus belle religion du monde . Sur le bonheur, je pense que le bonheur est une aptitude : bien gens sont pauvres et heureux de vivre, on est apte au bonheur comme on est apte à la croyance religieuse, ou à la vie divine .

  • @adityafundekar9408
    @adityafundekar94084 жыл бұрын

    Is the situation as bad as it is expressed in the novel ?....Any French farmer here?

  • @georgebohn988

    @georgebohn988

    4 жыл бұрын

    yes. and i would say worst in fact. ON one hand farming has no more rentability on the individual level. A little farm under 100 ha on which the family is making a living. This is due to the level of materials and technical investment which is so huge that all the little farms ends up deep in debts. They are all under water because the sell prices dont catch up. So when the farmer wake up in the morning he knows that he gonna work very hard all day to pay the bank. Every one (the politics) are well aware of this fact. So the EU long ago have taken a bureaucratic decision to strategically defend the source of foods to feed his population. And so the subsidies which allow the farmers to survive. At the end of the year the bottom line is only the subsidies in the best case scenario. On the others hand big industrials farms from 100 to 1000 ha are doing very well. and they get subsidies like the others but much bigger because of their land surfaces . To get back on what houellbecque is saying and he knows a lot in regard of his initial formation nowaday the little farmers are committing suicide when they suddenly realise that this situation is not sustainable and has no way out.

  • @SpringDonZ

    @SpringDonZ

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes it's very bad

  • @SpringDonZ

    @SpringDonZ

    3 жыл бұрын

    my parents are farmers and the life is tough ; it's even tougher for those who sell the milk ; the situation is absolutely disastrous

  • @felixw8929

    @felixw8929

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@georgebohn988 I think it is important to understand, especially for the farmers, that this is not a product of random historical or economic developments alone but it is in a way a planned and orchastrated policy. It has to do with the accumulation of power that every gevernment naturally desires, especially the democratic ones. A population, any population and any people is powerless and de facto enslaved without holding the food production and various effective methods of self defense in their own hands. What else is a group of people fed and guarded by authorities? I mean to say, neither authorities in Bruxelles nor in Paris, nor in Berlin or in Washington have an interest in keeping small farmers alive, they have an interest in supporting huge industrialized farmers. And so they intentionally don't protect them against the imported goods from the americas where huge landmasses are cheaper and more attainable than within densely populated Europe. *But I'd like to remind people in this comment section to think about the Boer, they are even worse off than the french, though they have less trouble with money they are quite literally tortured and murdered off their soil. Butchered in cruel and painful ways.* And again politicians do nothing, the media keeps quiet, internationally. French farmers are probably the worst off in Europe though. In Germany the descendents of the land owners, the peasant class, have had the opportunity to make money and provide for their families by working in the technology industry after ww2. Which was good for the remaining farmers. The german state who claimed a record high taxation therefore has been well off comparatively. Which is not necessarily a good thing for germans. People have to wake up to bad reality and bad nature of the world. (you can screenshot this comment, it will be deleted sooner or later)

  • @theyeking7023

    @theyeking7023

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hi da epdi irka

  • @dariusnikbin1695
    @dariusnikbin16952 жыл бұрын

    The Scarecrow... DCN

  • @donaldduck926
    @donaldduck9264 жыл бұрын

    Ma question aurait été : pourquoi avoir accepté la Légion d'Honneur des mains de l'oligarchie ?

  • @vbooo78

    @vbooo78

    4 жыл бұрын

    haha pour pouvoir continuer de vendre des livres. Comme la question sur les gilets jaunes qu'il esquive habillement, en faisant semblant de ne pas comprendre que les agriculteurs sont des gilets jaunes en quelque sorte.

  • @aquabot

    @aquabot

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Crixus Mauperthuis tu veut dire : la plèbe, n'est-ce pas?

  • @GgGhostOfTime

    @GgGhostOfTime

    4 жыл бұрын

    C'est dès ce moment qu'Houellebecq m'a déçu ... Qu'est-ce qu'il avait donc à accepter ce colifichet de l'oligarchie ? Pourtant avec la vente de ces livres , il a plutôt les reins bien couverts ... Un vrai écrivain , ne devrait-il pas toujours se placer dans la dissidence ?

  • @kimkimkim2634

    @kimkimkim2634

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@vbooo78 eh neuneu, à la question "etes vous solidaire des gillets jaunes", il répond "oui". T'es sourd ou t'es lourd? T'es boucher ou charcutier?

  • @vbooo78

    @vbooo78

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@kimkimkim2634 Il a dit: oui, MAIS...je pense que les agriculteurs sont encore pire que les gilets jaunes. D'une il ne comprend pas que les agriculteurs font partie des GJ. Je te rappelle petit neuneu que les gilets jaunes c'est la révolte du PEUPLE et que paysan éthimologuiment ça veut dire gens du pays. Deuxiemement, il ne dit jamais pourquoi il est pour les gilets jaunes (injustices sociales, opression de l'oligarchie sur le peuple etc..) car il risque de parler de sujets sensibles qui pouraient lui retomber dessus.

  • @noam7554
    @noam75544 жыл бұрын

    Translation please...

  • @knuggems
    @knuggems4 ай бұрын

    So… they speak in french, and the audience seems to understand… so why is the interviewer translating the questions to danish, if no one seems to have a problem understanding french? I’m VERY confused…😂

  • @lilyyroz3046
    @lilyyroz30464 жыл бұрын

    crade

  • @filosofiahoy4105
    @filosofiahoy4105 Жыл бұрын

    Je pense que la liberté est la capacité de prendre ce type de décisions dont parle Houellebecq sans avoir de raisons évidentes, même si elles apparaissent ensuite. On distingue les moments de liberté car ils entraînent généralement des problèmes, parfois mineurs ou à court terme, d'autres fois qui durent toute une vie ou semblent ne jamais finir. Au contraire, se laisser aller pourrait être considéré comme un manque de liberté, mais cela provoque paradoxalement la même sensation que prendre des décisions libertaires, même avec moins de conséquences et plus de protection pour ceux qui sont entraînés par la famille, la communauté ou la société, etc. Je crois que la liberté ne vient que dans ces petits paquets de feuilles appelés littérature, où nous prenons toutes les décisions et en même temps aucune, c'est un échange que l'écrivain courageux met à notre disposition pour que nous puissions scruter son intimité et recueillir parfois des échantillons de l'impact (parfois positif) de son cadeau de liberté sur les lecteurs.🤓

  • @mag63848
    @mag638484 жыл бұрын

    Taz

  • @walter8145
    @walter81454 жыл бұрын

    On a pas vraiment à réfléchir pourquoi on aime un auteur, ça vous touche ou pas, c'est aussi bête que ça je pense. C'est votre problème si vous détestez ce type, on peut dire que Houellebecq n'est pas reproductible ce qui fait de lui un auteur à part entière.

  • @bobsaint9272

    @bobsaint9272

    3 жыл бұрын

    A-t-on seulement le droit d'émettre une opinion contraire, avec la propagande dont on nous bassine? Soumission est sans doute excellent, le reste est juste de la branlette. Beaucoup d'écrivains le surpassent de loin! Houellebecq est juste un bon bourgeois bourré de fric jusqu'à en étouffer, qui a le désavantage d'être un produit de consommation hypertrophié à outrance. Au fond c'est juste un conformiste... pas de quoi en faire des statues!

  • @wRAAh
    @wRAAh Жыл бұрын

    33:33 Di Purpulle

  • @michelemercie5676
    @michelemercie5676 Жыл бұрын

    Ah oui François Maurice quel écrivain aussi

  • @michelemercie5676
    @michelemercie5676 Жыл бұрын

    Mauriac

  • @Bizarro69
    @Bizarro693 жыл бұрын

    Why do french people talk like they are speaking a language they are learning?

  • @johandewindt

    @johandewindt

    2 жыл бұрын

    because it's nice to play with that langage

  • @coffeetime7033

    @coffeetime7033

    2 жыл бұрын

    Actually it's not french people it's just Houellebecq

  • @jandron94

    @jandron94

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mariusdlb3713 Je dirais plutot que l'important pour lui est de trouver la bonne formulation, le mot qui fait la différence avec le lambda. D'être à minimum au niveau de ses paires ou prédécesseurs français. Ce n'est pas un orateur par nature, il n'est pas professeur ni un homme de média donc il doit faire chauffer la machine. Il me rappelle Gainsbourg en ce sens. On ne s'en rend pas forcément compte mais la qualité du français n'est plus aussi vivace chez nos contemporains. Cet enthousiasme nordique pour la langue française fait plaisir : la langue anglaise n'a pas encore tout écrasé.

  • @hankchinaski284
    @hankchinaski2843 жыл бұрын

    Un maitre

  • @MBJanus
    @MBJanus2 жыл бұрын

    C'est des romans de gare ? Les particules élémentaires ça doit rester élémentaire, sinon ça devient complètement décohérent. La poésie et la prose sont faites de voyelles et de consonnes, les mélanger est extrêmement difficile. Sidharta a à voir avec Bouddha. Les connaissances informatiques sont innées chez l'invité.

  • @MegaCirse
    @MegaCirse Жыл бұрын

    Au-delà des faux semblants, MH dénoncerait-il l’ordre apparent et les paradoxes d'un monde insensible? Spirituel, sensoriel et rebelle, ce conteur dévoilerait-il les impostures secrètes, explorant des jouissances sereines précédant un monde de rêves resurgissants 🥶🥵

  • @skyalmillegra2532
    @skyalmillegra25324 жыл бұрын

    Mais c'est en quelle langue?

  • @desvignesthierry6291

    @desvignesthierry6291

    4 жыл бұрын

    En kobaien du Sud? Non en suédois? Norvégien !!!! Peut-être.

  • @skyalmillegra2532

    @skyalmillegra2532

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@desvignesthierry6291 Oui. ma foi..

  • @ShmaerkWards

    @ShmaerkWards

    4 жыл бұрын

    c'est danois

  • @marcmichel9394

    @marcmichel9394

    3 жыл бұрын

    C’est du pur danois comme l’a déjà écrit un autre commentateur.

  • @axp8598
    @axp85984 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @michelemercie5676
    @michelemercie5676 Жыл бұрын

    Moi aussi je préfère proust que Céline c est une autre dimension !

  • @Marenqo
    @Marenqo3 жыл бұрын

    33:19 irritating smoke

  • @jrpim17
    @jrpim173 жыл бұрын

    C'est fou ce qu'on aime repasser le bac ! Au moins est-ce d'un niveau commun... n'est-ce pas ?

  • @masquelieretienne3017

    @masquelieretienne3017

    3 жыл бұрын

    Que voulez-vous dire par là ?

  • @karensonlyfansphotographer7014
    @karensonlyfansphotographer70144 жыл бұрын

    I knew Houellebecq liked Céline's pamphlets. You can smell the influence. He could never admit it earlier in his career or he'd be toast; part of the self-censoring. The irony though is that Houellebecq himself became a formalist later on. The young Houellebecq was going for broke with no financial motivation with "Whatever", he probably didn't really believe he could quit his office job. Céline had no financial motivation when he wrote those pamphlets, but they were written by a motivation stronger than any personal financial incentive: to make sure what Paris looked like stayed what it looked like, and not what Paris looks like today under the stewardship of those he polemicized in said pamphlets. "Whatever" was great, but Submission reeked of a man trying to appease his not-so-French globalist friends like Sarkozy. Houellebecq of today retreated to a petit bourgeoisie, but his heart, as someone else said "beats right," he will get more passionate about Schopenhauer and Céline than he would about any other garbage. Houellebecq's progression is similar to Junger. The revered author of Storm of Steel and other great works, but after the "hour of decision" (to borrow a prophetic contemporary's book title), he became a soft humanist, retreating and just hoping to live out his days in his country estate. Eumeswil, his "anarch" figure, is Junger's method of coping with modernity passively, trying to minimize the time you must serve the master obediently and maximizing your time on your own to "hide in your library," (thus Junger whined to publishers later in life for not promoting him as much, publishers who had no love for who they saw a fascist at heart). Evola, on the other hand, advocated active nihilism, intent to facilitate the downfall of the system as quickly as possible by accelerating it. In that regard, Houellebecq is a bit of both: he does want to point out how disgusting "supermarket man" is and show the conclusions, but on the other hand he has moments of appeasing for comfort (like Junger did, who went as far as to say he likes women's equal rights -- betraying his master Nietzsche -- because it's now a more "spiritual era," all to please publishers he hoped would promote him and pay him). Nietzsche never had it easy, he was as he called himself a "posthumous man," which he rightly saw honorable because those men are the writers who scoffed at by the establishments of their time, and revered later on for having been the "unwanted Cassandra." Houellebecq, with Whatever, was the unwanted Cassandra, and even Houellebecq himself said of his own success "someone made a mistake" in shining the spotlight on him. I'm sure whoever with press power that promoted Michel was later on made persona non grata in the consolidated mainstream press system. And where would Wagner have been without the King of Bavaria? A ha, yes, the old times, when the aristocracy chose good art, because the masses could not. The old times, before democracy ran amok. The old times, when women couldn't choose to live a life on birth control sampling a new Thor-lookalike penis every week, because they didn't have microwaves, didn't have their buy frozen chicken fingers get birth control free combo coupons on their smartphone. Don't believe for a second Bernard Levy ever actually liked Michel Houellebecq, as you can see him relentlessly poke at him to confess his love for Celine's pamphlets, as you can see BH Levy's endless "bitterness of the Jew" on the pages of that opportunistic "interview book" which I couldn't make it more than halfway through before I realized it was nothing more than a subpar writer attempting to poke at Michel endlessly, forcing him into calculated responses so as not to ruin himself. Levy used Michel's name to get a book sale, but in Michel's mind, it was probably a symbiotic favor, showing those who hate him that he was willing to help them. They will never love you Michel. You should've recognized that in how hard you've been bashed by them at every opportunity. All of your praise comes from those they want to destroy, and well, just look at Paris, look at London, look at all of your fellow Frenchmen and European men who have been systematically degraded to the position of non-viability for fatherhood with economic methods, feminist methods, all of these various methods. The birthrate, hookup culture which you try to show in your "materialist horror" genre as someone else calls it, it is all by design. And now, at the end, in his "last interview" as it is said here, Michel admits Celine's pamphlets were great, like Sheehan talking about Hoffa in the nursing home. And it's true, Celine's later work was not. His one early novel was good, and then Celine made no bones that he wanted to do as Michel did and "pay the rent," and after the war, just like Michel and every other enslaved author is now, is forced to not piss off the "powerful man" that Michel claims he encountered here. Don't kid yourself though, as even Celine hated writing about castles, as he said that is what pays the bills and what his publishers want, what the common masses want to read. Ah, Michel, you know all of this. You've read Tocqueville's book. You know we are in the nightmare, some call it the Kali Yuga, I call it yoga pants everywhere and just let my dick be soft for a minute you godless whores (why he went to Ireland and got a dog, aside from tax robbery to fund the destruction of France). No, my friend, religion can never exist in our lifetime. The last great German philosophers before the final battle knew it was a war for the hegemony of either money or blood. Money won, and money doesn't care if you don't like my pink wig, my "science pussy" my surgeon created, my music that is clever repetitive electronic buzzing designed to make you fuck and requires a few molly's to actually listen to. Shame nobody asked him the question they should have; I'm sure they threw some out that were good. A man who toted Schopenhauer for so long, should be able to answer: what happened to philosophy? Oh, we have the answer, it lies in the death of the West with WWII, when Americanism imposed itself on Europe, Americans, who in the death throes of western philosophy Evola said "don't think, but there they are," who Spengler also said in the same twilight "what is 100% Americanism?", who Ludwig Klages echoed Céline to announce that the last escape hole on the cave was sealed with modern media methods to completely control populaces that were for no good reason lied to and mobilized against Europe. America: "I fuck, therefore I am." Yes, we know why Mr. Houellebecq really doesn't care to visit America, why he preferred to escape to the refuge of God in the countryside with a loyal dog, rather than the city life full of the street dogs we call feminized woman. It's a shame Houellebecq never lived in a free enough Europe to write as freely as Céline did. Céline paid a price of a hard life, but he kept his honor. Reading Céline's pamphlets is a rush unlike any other. That the wrong people won is why you have Amazon the only way the "cave prisoners" see "featured writers" writing "masterpieces" about chopping off their genitals, putting on a dress, and getting cornholed at clubs as moral virtue. No need for replies, I already know what they are. Jews/leftists will want to do an Ezra Pound to me, claiming a need of "psychiatric help" to lock me up (that's what psych was always, subversion, as you had Freud trying to make everyone fuck their parents, and then they just used it as a front to lock up their political opponents as "mentally ill," they did it with Yockey and Hamsun too; now they just ruin your employment and/or academic prospects if you don't love your destruction). The shills who know I'm right will be silent and/or distance so they don't ruin their chance to go to restaurants on the weekend where apathetic service workers will spit in their food, the petit bourgeoisie can't ruin their chance to pay their credit card payment, and the ones who openly agree with me -- and thus have nothing, the yellow vest types, the alt right types -- well, enjoy it while it lasts friends, for they are closing this last pinhole of light outside of the cave we've enjoyed for a moment called the internet. The consolation: the push to revoke gun rights and speech rights in America shows how afraid they are, how destabilized their system is. They know that "yellow vests" is going to increasingly become the phenomenon everywhere. Well, you didn't think you could have an entire generation of young men watching sluts in yoga pants everywhere just fucking a few, uh, what did Michel call them in "Whatever," vagina millionaires? Not his words, but his sentiment. Men who are contemptible Tisserands today, walking around horrible modern feminized workplaces with their head down in fear of a MeToo, but wouldn't have been decent, hard-working family men for their country before the wrong side won? Vichy Paris was a dream compared to what it is now. Hail Céline!

  • @totalunconcern

    @totalunconcern

    4 жыл бұрын

    you're all too right

  • @totalunconcern

    @totalunconcern

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Crixus Mauperthuis Spoken like a true neckbeard my man. Might even be bait with that picture, name and jazz.

  • @enomoeb

    @enomoeb

    4 жыл бұрын

    What a difficult world for mister "Incel" panicking in front of yoga pants.

  • @jeanvanderstegen

    @jeanvanderstegen

    4 жыл бұрын

    Incel Hail Céline ! You bloody right, dude, although I do not agree with you on the quality of Céline late novels. If you understand Céline in french, here is for you : kzread.info/dash/bejne/l6Ktm7iakrbZmJM.html

  • @jamessaint3219

    @jamessaint3219

    4 жыл бұрын

    I am French I am agree with you

  • @Sarashatouille
    @Sarashatouille4 жыл бұрын

    Cet vidéo est destinée visiblement au public bilingue

  • @Sarashatouille

    @Sarashatouille

    4 жыл бұрын

    @TheSwoleBroscientist Merci, faute de frappe

  • @nicolaspinetarthurmaxrosen5333
    @nicolaspinetarthurmaxrosen53334 жыл бұрын

    Vision interpersonnelle de l'auteur sincère avec tantôt un point de vue philosophique qui ne manque pas d'intérêt... Quant à sa réponse sur Ferdinand Céline, sa définition sur les pamphlets me font froid dans le dos... Mais faut-il y voir de sa part qu'une comparaison littéraire "parlée" entre le roman Voyage au bout de la nuit et les immondices pamphlétaires antisémites de Céline. Nicolas Arthur Rosenblue Pinet "Nicolas Obet"

  • @masquelieretienne3017

    @masquelieretienne3017

    4 жыл бұрын

    Les pamphlets de Céline sont dans la continuité de ses premières œuvres. C’est sûrement pour ça que houellebecq les trouve « bons ». Il y voit l’aboutissement d’un style qu’il ne juge plus que déclinant dans les œuvres qui suivent.

  • @nicolaspinetarthurmaxrosen5333

    @nicolaspinetarthurmaxrosen5333

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@masquelieretienne3017 Hello Étienne... On peut toujours trouver des qualités littéraires dans l'abjection... Mais à ce degré, ça me laisse pantois, et dubitatif quant au supposé "bons" concernant les pamphlets. Alors oui, il est fort probable que les romans suivants se sont distingués comme le précise Michel Houellebecq. Belle soirée à vous.

  • @nicolaspinetarthurmaxrosen5333

    @nicolaspinetarthurmaxrosen5333

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Crixus Mauperthuis C'est un massacre !

  • @nicolaspinetarthurmaxrosen5333

    @nicolaspinetarthurmaxrosen5333

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Crixus Mauperthuis Je ne tape sur personne, je donne un avis critique au sens littéral de la forme... Quant à l'histoire, il nous faut en effet revenir au source de cette époque sombre et apocalyptique, vous en conviendrez. Cela ne veut pas dire non-plus qu'il nous faut tout cautionner. Céline n'a pas été le seul à exprimer sa haine, d'autres auteurs l'on exprimé, une haine qui était considérée depuis des lustres comme une opinion politique, et de nos jours à juste titre comme un délit... Car enfin les propos haineux n'ont jamais été une opinion. Le fait est que Michel Houellebecq a au moins de mérite d'avoir des opinions sans haine, et d'ouvrir cet échange que nous avions ici-même.

  • @nicolaspinetarthurmaxrosen5333

    @nicolaspinetarthurmaxrosen5333

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Crixus Mauperthuis Il n'y a pas de haine dans les pamphlets de Céline selon vous? Alors j'ai dû me tromper d'auteur ou d'époque... Le sentiment de haine peut être aussi provoqué par un corps qui hurle sa douleur. Quant à la haine de nos jours, ce sont toujours les mêmes qui la provoquent, ainsi que ceux qui la suivent. Nous souffrons terriblement d'un manque de nuance... En revanche, nous pouvons rendre grâce à nos échanges sur cette vidéo, et qui rattrapent un tant soi peu ce manque.

  • @111Qadr
    @111QadrАй бұрын

    Où est le bec de ce sinistre oiseau ?!

  • @sergio39046
    @sergio390464 жыл бұрын

    Il tente vaille que vaille de ressembler physiquement à Céline....Mais pour ce qui est du talent, c'est un nain à côté du génial Ferdinand. Lorsque l'on pense que Céline n'a pas obtenu le Goncourt en 1932 pour "voyage au bout de la nuit", oeuvre qui a bouleversé toute la littérature, alors que lui avec son style de potache niveau 3ème l'a reçu pour son "voyage au bout de l'ennui", c'est à mourir de rire

  • @guillaumeb.3861

    @guillaumeb.3861

    2 жыл бұрын

    t'as pas trop l'air de rire, pourtant

  • @archaic9525

    @archaic9525

    2 жыл бұрын

    on s'en fout des prix.. Ils sont tous oubliés les gagnants des prix. Qui a battu Céline? On s'en fout. Bon pour plaire à maman juste.

  • @fabiencazeau1506
    @fabiencazeau15064 жыл бұрын

    J'ai adore et j'adore toujours ses premiers poemes, ses premiers romans moins, et les recents n'en parlons pas. Toute sa force est dans le plat, le nonchalant, le mou, l'evident, et se trouve deja dans les poemes en question. Ensuite il n'a fait que plaquer ses trouvailles dans des histoires longues, chiantes, socialo-politico-machin, mais en moins bon, en lourd, en mal ecrit. Il n'a plus rien trouve, sinon des editeurs et des lecteurs - tant mieux pour sa survie.

  • @mistermiify

    @mistermiify

    4 жыл бұрын

    C'est toujours étonnant de lire quelqu'un qui a un ressenti si différent du sien, je trouve ses romans bien supérieurs à ses poèmes.

  • @fabiencazeau1506

    @fabiencazeau1506

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mistermiify Oui je sais pas pourquoi, mais ses poèmes continuent de me faire quelque chose, quand ses romans j'y remettrais pas les pieds... mais j'ai des amis qui pensent comme toi. Donc bon, tout ça c'est pas des vérités universelles non plus hein.

  • @vivelegostarswars
    @vivelegostarswars2 жыл бұрын

    Vous auriez quand même pu poser les questions en français... c’est ennuyant quand même...

  • @recorr
    @recorr4 жыл бұрын

    Où l'on comprend qu'il n'est qu'un imposteur. Vaniteux de surcroît puisqu'il se savait imposteur, mais qu'il semble l'oublier.

  • @garliclasagna
    @garliclasagna3 жыл бұрын

    islamophobe...

  • @f.d.6667

    @f.d.6667

    3 жыл бұрын

    One-word sentences are always a true proof of superior intellectual qualities - which becomes especially clear when contrasted with the words and insights of a writer with well-known accomplishments.

  • @candide1065

    @candide1065

    2 жыл бұрын

    Islamophobe? yes, thank you for noticing!

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