Michel Houellebecq's new novel Annihilation has sat unfinished for months on my bedside table. This is the first time I've ever not finished one of his novels, even the disappointing Serotonin. I just simply can't be bothered.
In a sign of how little I enjoyed the novel, I've only turned over the corner of two pages to mark passages I liked. One is a description of an utterly henpecked marriage in which an ultra-liberal French wife inflicts maximum humiliation on her husband by choosing a West African sperm donor for her IVF treatment, and the other is an interesting discussion of Nietzsche and nihilism (the argument is that Western nihilism has reached its pinnacle in our attitude to the elderly and the past, because we no longer see any value in them).
Otherwise, I found the novel forgettable and, dare I say it, boring. I really don't know where Houellebecq goes from here.
Michel Houellebecq's new novel Annihilation has sat unfinished for months on my bedside table. This is the first time I've ever not finished one of his novels, even the disappointing Serotonin. I just simply can't be bothered.
In a sign of how little I enjoyed the novel, I've only turned over the corner of two pages to mark passages I liked. One is a description of an utterly henpecked marriage in which an ultra-liberal French wife inflicts maximum humiliation on her husband by choosing a West African sperm donor for her IVF treatment, and the other is an interesting discussion of Nietzsche and nihilism (the argument is that Western nihilism has reached its pinnacle in our attitude to the elderly and the past, because we no longer see any value in them).
Otherwise, I found the novel forgettable and, dare I say it, boring. I really don't know where Houellebecq goes from here.
BY Raw Egg Nationalist
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