Without God : Michel Houellebecq and materialist horror /

Betty, Louis,

Without God : Michel Houellebecq and materialist horror / Louis Betty. - University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : the Houellebecquian worldview -- Materialism and secularism -- The future of religion -- Religion and utopia -- Materialist horror -- Liberalism is God and the West is its prophet.

"Addresses the religious, metaphysical, and existential dimensions of French novelist Michel Houellebecq's work. Argues that Houellebecq is the foremost contemporary chronicler of the spiritual anxieties of Western and specifically French modernity"--Provided by publisher.



9780271078090




Houellebecq, Michel--Criticism and interpretation.
Houellebecq, Michel--Criticism and interpretation.


Religion in literature.
Materialism in literature.


Electronic Books.

PQ2668 / .W584 2016