Forfatterens fødeår: 1958
As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity.
A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until he's packed off with a colleague - the sexually-frustrated Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system.
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Michel Houellebecq exposes his intellectual debt to Schopenhauer in this remarkable critique of the philosopher's thought.
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