Contemporary literature

Anéantir – to reduce to nothing or plunge into a state of utter despair. It was not without reason that Michel Houellebecq chose this infinitive for the French title of his eighth novel; to revisit the fundamental law of nature – the progressive and inevitable degradation of the body that turns every living being to dust; to draw attention to the greatest taboo of the West - death - and thus plunge its readers into despair. We are indeed devastated by the omnipresence of themes related to the...