Michel Houellebecq, the Cassandra of Freedom: Submission and Decline by S. Kochin, Michael

Michel Houellebecq, the Cassandra of Freedom: Submission and Decline (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004498129)

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Michel Houellebecq, the Cassandra of Freedom: Submission and Decline by S. Kochin, Michael

Michel Houellebecq, the Cassandra of Freedom: Submission and Decline

$114.00
Michel Houellebecq, the Cassandra of Freedom: Submission and Decline by S. Kochin, Michael

Michel Houellebecq, the Cassandra of Freedom: Submission and Decline

$114.00
Format: Hardcover
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On 7 January 2015, the day of the murderous attack on the offices of the Paris satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, the cover of the current issue showed a drunken Michel Houellebecq in a wizard's cap making two prophecies: "In 2016 I will lose my teeth. In 2022 I will observe Ramadan." Houellebecq had previously described Islam as "the stupidest of religions." But on that day, as terrorists sought to bring the justice of Islam to blasphemers for whom Michel Houellebecq was insufficiently anti-Islamic, Houellebecq's novel Submission, depicting the democratic conquest of France by the Muslim Brotherhood, was published by Flammarion. In this collection, an international cast of authorities on politics and literature discuss the meaning and unprecedented impact of Michel Houellebecq's Submission.

Author: Michael S. Kochin
ISBN-10: 9004498125
ISBN-13: 9789004498129
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 11/11/2021
Pages: 234
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.37h x 6.14w x 0.79d
By Michael S. Kochin
By Michael S. Kochin
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Michael S. Kochin, PhD University of Chicago, 1996. Teaches politics, literature and film at Tel Aviv University. His most recent book (with the historian Michael Taylor): An Independent Empire: Diplomacy & War in the Making of the United States (2020).

Alberto Spektorowski, PhD Hebrew University Jerusalem, 1996. Teaches comparative politics at Tel Aviv University. His most recent book (with Dafna Elfersy): From multiculturalism to democratic discrimination: The Challenge of Islam and the re-emergence of Europe's nationalism (Michigan, 2020).

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