With Michel Houellebecq's Submission due out in the UK this week (and in the US next month), the publicity machine gets properly rolling with Angelique Chrisafis' profile of the author in The Guardian, appropriately (sigh) sensationalistically titled: Michel Houellebecq: 'Am I Islamophobic ? Probably, yes'
Meanwhile: authors' appearances should certainly not factor into judgment of their work, and, because they're irrelevant -- and just in case --, I prefer to avoid/ignore them, wherever possible -- but I have to admit a fascination with the (ever more of a) train-wreck that is Houellebecq. No denying that he has a certain ... je ne sais quoi ? (and I don't want to know .....)
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(That's from the Evening Standard's review.)
Meanwhile: authors' appearances should certainly not factor into judgment of their work, and, because they're irrelevant -- and just in case --, I prefer to avoid/ignore them, wherever possible -- but I have to admit a fascination with the (ever more of a) train-wreck that is Houellebecq. No denying that he has a certain ... je ne sais quoi ? (and I don't want to know .....)
(That's from the Evening Standard's review.)