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Van, Treeck Christian. "La réception de Michel Houellebecq dans les pays germanophones." Aix-Marseille 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010AIX10062.

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La réception de Michel Houellebecq dans l'espace germanophone, surtout en Allemagne, se distingue par son intensité particulière. Elle est étudiée ici sur la base de la théorie du champ et sur celle du concept de posture. La présentation de Houellebecq et des parties et aspects de son oeuvre essentiels pour la réception germanophone est suivie de l'étude des médiateurs qui sont intervenus dans le transfert culturel de cet "objet" vers l'espace germanophone et des agents de sa réception. Parmi les premiers, les éditeurs allemands de Houellebecq revêtent une importance particulière. Dans la réception critique, celle dans la presse est analysée selon plusieurs aspects pour lesquels la posture de l'auteur (qui s'avère souvent aussi ambiguë que son oeuvre) est confrontée aux réactions des journalistes. Si la réception télévisée présente globalement des caractéristiques comparables à celles de la réception dans la presse, celle dans le champ universitaire s'en distingue au niveau de la temporalité et des approches choisies. Dans le domaine de la réception créatrice, les exemples analysés d'une réception littéraire traduisent des prises de position très variables. Parmi les diverses adaptations théâtralmes, radiophoniques et cinématographiques des romans, la mise à l'écran des Particules élémentaires par Oskar Roehler mérite une attention particulière d'une part en raison de la réorientation mélodramatique de l'oeuvre, d'autre part en raison du public considérable qu'elle a attiré. L'ensemble des analyses effectuées permet de préciser le capital symbolique de Houellebecq dans le champ culturel germanophone ainsi que les caractéristiques et les facteurs déterminants de sa réception.
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Pitault-Moreau, Aurélie. "L'Oeuvre de Michel Houellebecq : une observation critique de la société." Tours, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004TOUR2025.

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L'oeuvre poétique et romanesque de Michel Houellebecq offre au lecteur contemporain une perception désenchantée de sa réalité. La critique sociale inhérente à ses écrits suppose une posture engagée de l'auteur. Ses textes distillent en effet des théories explicatives sur l'apparition de maux liés à la libération sexuelle et à l'avénement du libéralisme. Cependant Houellebecq ne semble pas désirer que la littérature embrasse une fonction sociale. Il demeure en retrait de sa création, préférant laisser parler ses oeuvres que d'en devenir un médiateur. Notre travail se proposera de déterminer le degré d'engagement de l'auteur. Pour ce faire, nous tenterons de mettre la démarche houellebecquienne à l'épreuve de la théorie naturaliste zolienne. Nous nous appuierons sur les qualités que Zola attendait d'un romancier, c'est- à -dire un observateur et un expérimentateur
The poetic and romantic work of Michel Houellebecq offers to the contemporary reader a perception desillusioned of its reality. Inherent social critiscim at its writings supposes an engaged attitude of the author. Its texts indeed distill theories on the apparition of evils related at the sexual liberation and the advent of liberalism. However, Michel Houellebecq does not seem to wish that the literature embraces a social function. Our work proposes to determine the degree of engagement of the author. We will confront the literary work of Houellebecq with the naturalist's theorie of Emile Zola. We will rest on the qualities that Zola waited of a novelist, i. E. To be an observer and an experimenter. The representation criticizes of the society engages the novelist towards a responsibility ; witness of its time, he's also compromised with it. But does Houellebecq assume really its role of public
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Melo, Israel Victor de. "Imaginário cultural : árabes e muçulmanos em Submissão, de Michel Houellebecq." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2018. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/32256.

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Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literaturas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, 2018.
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Ao representar a complexidade social francesa, Michel Houellebecq caracteriza sujeitos sociais, o que pode possibilitar o conflito naquilo que concerne à relação de interação desses sujeitos numa realidade não-ficcional. A partir de seu romance Submissão (2015), analisamos as narrativas de tensão político-social entre personagens árabes e não árabes para, desse modo, revelar o imaginário circunscrito ao outro, à outra árabe, sobretudo, na tradição cultural e científica cujo fim é a dominação colonial. Para isso, nosso embasamento teórico-metodológico parte do campo da Imagologia – Marius-François Guyard (1951), Daniel-Henri Pageaux (1989, 2011), Celeste Ribeiro de Sousa (2004, 2009, 2011) – e dos estudos culturais – por meio dos pressupostos defendidos por Edward Said (1978,1993) e Homi Bhabha (1994). Assim, investigamos o modo como o Outro foi visto, imaginado e narrado na produção cultural literária.
En représentant la complexité sociale française, Michel Houellebecq caractérise des sujets sociaux, ce qui peut rendre possible le conflit en ce qui concerne la relation d'interaction de ces sujets dans une réalité non-fictive. À partir de son roman Soumission (2015), nous analysons les récits de tensions politiques-sociales entre les personnages arabes et non-arabes afin de révéler l'imaginaire circonscrit à l'autre arabe, notamment dans la tradition culturelle et scientifique dont le but est la domination coloniale. Pour cela, notre base théorique-méthodologique part du domaine de l’Imagologie – Marius-François Guyard (1951), Daniel-Henri Pageaux (1989, 2011), Celeste Ribeiro de Sousa (2004, 2009, 2011) – et des études culturelles – à l’aide des hypothèses défendues par Edward Said (1978,1993) et Homi Bhabha (1994). Ainsi, nous étudions la façon dont l'Autre a été vu, imaginé et raconté dans la production culturelle littéraire.
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Lavigne, Jean-Baptiste. "Entre réaction et utopie : Michel Houellebecq ou le paradoxe postmoderne." Chambéry, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009CHAML013.

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L'@oeuvre de Michel Houellebecq semble être paradigmatique du courant postmoderne en littérature. En effet, elle partage avec lui l'idée selon laquelle tout n'est plus en ce monde que fragmentation, rupture, paradoxe, absurdité et aporie. Or, s'il est exact que la poétique houellebecquienne s'attache bel et bien à conter l'histoire d'une civilisation qui se perd ; cependant, elle ne saurait se résumer uniquement à cela. En effet, tout un pan de celle-ci s'attache à redonner espoir au lecteur, à lui promettre des possibilités de reconstruction par delà la postmodernité : en direction d'une "post-modernité". Ce discours programmatique se met tout d'abord en place par le biais de la narration d'un univers futuriste, utopique et idéal, fonctionnant à base de positivisme comtien et de manipulations génétiques. De même, ce projet de reconstructionsociétale passe par la sévère critique de notre monde corrompu et dissolu, et, parallèlement à cela, par la sacralisation d'un certain nombre de valeurs fondamentales inhérentes à la modernité idéologique (l'amour, la famille, etc. ). Cependant, c'est l'acte poétique qui semble être le remède adéquat aux maux contemporains ; car, celui-ci, en faisant l'économie du manichéisme, se trouve ainsi en mesure de proposer au lecteur un univers post-logique au sein duquel les paradoxes qui rongent le monde postmoderne ont été transcendés. En dernière analyse, cette oeuvre polymorphe et polysémique ne se présenterait donc comme absurde, ou comme postmoderne, que pour mieux décrire l'univers moniste dans lequel elle est plongée, pour mieux le comprendre, afin de savoir comment le combattre, et, éventuellement, comme le dépasser
The work of Michel Houellebecq seems to be emblematic of the postmodern literary movement. Indeed, they both share the principle according to which this whole world is nothing but division, paradox and nonsense. Yet, if it is true that Houellebecq's poetic sets out to describe the story of a disappearing universe, it could not be confined to that. Indeed, a whole section of the latter tries to give back hope to the reader and to promise him reconstruction opportunities beyond postmodernity : towards a "post-postmodernity" within which humanity would be reconciled with itself as well as with the outside world. That programmatic speech first establishes itself through the narration of a futuristic universe, the description of a utopian system based on positivism and genetic manipulations : a promise of liberation for a humanity chained to its own inability to improve itself. Moreover, that social reconstruction project involves the radical criticism of our corrupt world, and, at the same time, the sanctification of a number of fundamental values inherent to modernity (love, family, etc. ) and symbolic of human community spirit. However, it is poetry which seems to be remedy to contemporary evils, for the poetic work, deprived of a manichaeism and free of intellectual and rational thoughts, finds itself able to offer the reader o post-logical universe within which paradoxes, sapping the postmodern world, have been transcended. Finally, that polysemous work therefore appears absurd, or, more precisely, postmodern, only in order to describe the monist universe into which it is thrown, in order to understand it better, so that it may be fought, and, possibly, overcome
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Hladki, Pawel. "Système social et fiction : l’exemple de Michel Houellebecq et de Jerzy Pilch." Thesis, Paris 13, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA131031/document.

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Le corps social, ce vaste ensemble d’organes interdépendants, participe à l’élaboration de l’œuvre littéraire, laquelle est le produit de trois sous-systèmes principaux : politico-économique (responsable de l’adaptation aux conditions environnementales), culturel (visant à maintenir les normes et les valeurs) et sociétal (relatif à l’intégration collective). Ce schéma analytique, librement inspiré de la théorie de Talcott Parsons, s’applique particulièrement bien aux récits pilchiens et houellebecquiens dont la diégèse fait ressortir les traits caractéristiques du contexte extérieur dans lequel elle a été conçue. La première partie de cette thèse explore la tension entre le système économico-politique et la production fictionnelle de Pilch et de Houellebecq. Cet examen ambitionne de démontrer combien la réalité sociale et marchande détermine l’inscription de certaines questions thématiques et formelles présentes dans l’écriture des deux auteurs : la description du paraître, la représentation des échanges interpersonnels, le fonctionnement des référents discursifs propres à l’économie, ainsi que l’appréhension du travail. La deuxième partie aborde l’influence des transformations sociohistoriques sur le maintien des modèles culturels et sur la reproduction des valeurs traditionnelles. Il s’agira de déterminer dans quelle mesure la révolution des moeurs en France et l’occidentalisation progressive de la société polonaise opèrent sur la conception de la famille et les relations amoureuses. La dernière partie traite du rôle de la religion et de l’identité dans le processus d’enracinement social, mais elle expose aussi les différents moyens de se retrancher de la société
Social body, as a large connection of interdependent organisms, takes part in elaboration of a literary work, which is the product of three main subsystems: politico-economical (responsible for the adaptation to environmental conditions), cultural (concerning the maintenance of standards and values) and social (referring to integration). This analytical scheme, loosely based on the theory of Talcott Parsons, relates specifically to stories of Pilch and Houellebecq, whose stories,together with the world depicted, reveal the characteristics of the external context in which they were designed. The first part of this paper examines the tension between the economic system and political and fictional productions by Jerzy Pilch and Michel Houellebecq. This study aims to demonstrate how the social reality and the market determine the recording of certain thematic and formal concerns presented in the works of these two authors: the description of the appearance, thepresentation of interpersonal exchanges, the functioning of discursive symbols appropriate for the economy, and concerns about work. The second part deals with the influence of socio-historical changes on the maintenance of cultural patterns and restoration of traditional values. The main objective will be to determine the extent to which the moral revolution in France and the gradual Westernization of Polish society affects the concept of the family and the love relationships. The lastpart concerns the role of religion and identity in the process of social rootedness, and presents various ways of cutting off from the society
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Boulade, Sophie. "Qui ? du roman. Henry Miller, Paul Auster, Michel Houellebecq." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA061.

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La catégorie du roman du qui ? comprend des romans écrits par des romanciers qui ne sont pas strictement contemporains les uns des autres, tels Henry Miller, Paul Auster et Michel Houellebecq. Ces romanciers suggèrent une problématicité de la parole, marquée par des indices référentiels contradictoires et ambigus. Ils compensent l’incertitude de ces indices par la stabilité qu’ils prêtent aux personnages et parce qu’ils se veulent réalistes : ils inscrivent leurs romans nettement dans leur époque et font de leurs personnages les témoins de cette époque. Cette dualité — incertitude du statut de la parole et réalisme — explique qu’au cadre spatial et temporel réaliste soient liés des jeux instables d’énonciation et d’identité. Cela justifie la catégorie de « roman du qui ? » et permet de lire, chez Henry Miller, Paul Auster et Michel Houellebecq, une problématicité, celle de la parole, celle des temps qu’évoquent ces romans
The category of the novel of the whom? includes novels written by novelists who are not strictly contemporaries of each other, such as Henry Miller, Paul Auster and Michel Houellebecq. These novelists suggest a problematics of speech, marked by contradictory and ambiguous referential indices. They compensate the uncertainty of these indices by the stability they lend to the characters and because they want to be realistic: they write their novels clearly in their time and make their characters witnesses of this time. This duality - uncertainty of the status of the speech and realism - explains that the realistic spatial and temporal framework are linked by unstable games of enunciation and identity. This justifies the category of the “novel of the whom?” and allows Henry Miller, Paul Auster and Michel Houellebecq to read a problematic, that of speech, of the times evoked by these novels
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Fustin, Ludivine. "Romanciers cyniques : Octave Mirbeau, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, Michel Houellebecq." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040011.

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À travers l’étude des romans de trois écrivains jugés cyniques – au sens antique ou moderne du terme –, il s’agit de chercher à définir un nouveau statut auctorial dans l’histoire du champ littéraire du XIXe au XXIe siècles : celui de romancier cynique. Le fil conducteur de cette recherche procède, avant tout, du rapport fondamental qu’entretient le cynisme avec la vérité. Vérité historique, lorsque ces écrivains envisagent le cynisme (notion qui touche aussi bien à la philosophie, à la psychologie qu’à la morale) comme un matériau romanesque, autrement dit, un thème, un caractère, une attitude à exposer afin de dévoiler au mieux la réalité de leur siècle respectif. Vérité transhistorique, quand ils s’attachent à révéler ce que sont l’homme et le monde. Le cynisme relève alors d’une pratique, celle du dire-vrai, qui favorise le caractère aléthique du texte littéraire et conditionne la teneur du discours véhiculé par le roman : c’est un centre autour duquel gravitent des thèmes, des éléments narratifs et des procédés d’écriture communs aux écrits romanesques de Mirbeau, de Drieu et de Houellebecq, dont les horizons sont pourtant bien distincts. Cette forte implication du cynisme dans l’espace littéraire suppose nécessairement un rapport singulier au réel ; elle exige du romancier qu’il ménage la rencontre du fictif et du vécu, tout en déclenchant un processus de dévoilement, franc et lucide, à l’égard de la littérature elle-même. Le romancier cynique se doit de mettre à nu les faiblesses, les contradictions, voire les travers de la littérature afin d’être au plus près de ce qu’elle est vraiment
The antique and modern study of the novels by these three cynical writers aims at trying to portray a new authorial status in the history of nineteenth to twenty-first century literature : the status of the cynical novelist. First and foremost, the common thread of this research comes from the essential link between cynicism and truth. On the one hand, truth as historic truth is defined when cynicism (in its philosophical, psychological and ethical terms) is considered by these novelists as a novel material, in other words, a theme, a character, and an attitude, which exposes the reality of their respective century. On the other hand, truth as transhistorical truth is when they endeavour to unveil what mankind and world are. Cynicism comes therefore from the habit of truth-telling, the one that promotes the alethic aspect of the literary text and determines the content of the speech conveyed by the novel. Mirbeau, Drieu and Houellebecq novels have really definite horizons of their owns. But if I consider the common points to these three writers, I can say that this truth-telling process is a centre around which themes, narrative elements and writing processes gravitate. This strong involvement of cynicism in the literary space necessarily implies a singular connection to reality, therefore, it implies for the novelist both to handle carefully this melting of fiction and real-life experiences and to trigger a process of a honest and lucid disclosure towards literature itself. A cynical novelist must expose the weaknesses, the contradictions and even the quirks of literature in order to be as close as possible to what it really is
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Oliveira, Denise Maria Hudson de. "O intelectual fracassado : uma análise dos personagens escritores em Angústia, de Graciliano Ramos, e em Extensão do domínio da luta, de Michel Houellebecq." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2011. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/9770.

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A dissertação analisa os protagonistas – personagens escritores – dos livros Angústia, de Graciliano Ramos, e de Extensão do domínio da luta, de Michel Houellebecq. As obras são aproximadas no que diz respeito à presença da intelectualidade, da valorização do saber e da forte insatisfação dos dois personagens com o mundo em que vivem, inclusive com as relações humanas. Essas e outras condições levam os protagonistas a universos conflituosos que misturam reflexão, insatisfação, angústia, desesperança e fracasso. Os dois livros, do ponto de vista das histórias narradas, são tristes e sofridos porque não possuem perspectivas; não há horizonte para os dois personagens. Esses pontos são abordados levando-se em conta que os autores das obras utilizaram-se de certos recursos muito semelhantes para criarem suas histórias, como a questão da aparência física e de um assassinato. Profissionais do jornalismo e da engenharia de redes de informática; e também criadores de textos literários, portanto intelectuais, os dois protagonistas são desamparados pelo saber e não são poupados do sentimento de fracasso. Com o poder econômico sendo o elemento-chave em cada uma dessas obras; o homem caminhando rumo à civilização, mas cada vez mais voltando a sua origem; a inversão de valores, o extraordinário avanço da tecnologia sobrepondo-se sobre nós e nos afastando de nós mesmos e dos outros, diante ainda da ausência de um horizonte que conforte e que faça valer o nosso conhecimento adquirido ao longo da história humana, indagamos: não estará de volta, esteticamente, um novo fracassado, um novo incapacitado para viver? Eis uma hipótese. É preciso um trabalho extenso e intenso para respondê-la e prová-la. O que podemos afirmar, é que a conjuntura e o contexto mundial ocidental demonstram que para a existência de uma nova gama de personagens fracassados o “terreno” é bem propício. _______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT
This dissertation analyzes the protagonists – writers characters – from Graciliano Ramos' Angústia, and Michel Houellebecq's Extensão do domínio da luta. The works have in common the presence of intellectuality, the appreciation of knowledge, and the strong dissatisfaction of both characters regarding the world they live in, including human relations. These and other conditions lead the protagonists to conflicting worlds that mix reflection, dissatisfaction, anguish, hopelessness, and failure. The two books, from the narrative point of view, tell about sadness and suffering, because there are no perspectives; there is no horizon for the two characters. These issues are discussed taking into account that both authors made use of very similar features to create their stories, such as the physical appearance and a murder. Journalists and computer engineers; and also literary texts creators, thus intellectuals, both protagonists become helpless by knowledge and are not spared by the feeling of failure. With the economic power being the key element in each of these works; the man walking towards civilization, but increasingly returning to their origin; the inversion of values, the extraordinary advancement of technology superimposing on us, and taking us away from ourselves and from others, and yet before the absence of a horizon that comforts us and makes our acquired knowledge throughout human history worth, we wonder: aesthetically, will not be back a new loser, a new unable to live life? Here's a hypothesis. It takes an extensive and intensive work to answer it and confirm it. What we can say is that the Western world context and situation show that the ground is very friendly and supportive to the existence of a new range of loser-type characters.
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Campbell, Françoise. "Pursuing the impossible : the ambivalence of utopia in the novels of Michel Houellebecq." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCC331.

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Cette thèse examine les représentations utopiques dans l’œuvre littéraire de Michel Houellebecq. En se démarquant des précédentes interprétations qui ont classifié ses romans comme soit utopiques, soit dystopiques, soit anti-utopiques, elle explore comment une approche par l’ambivalence permet de réévaluer ces textes en accord avec les nouvelles tendances critiques du genre utopique. De cette manière, cette thèse démontre qu’au-delà de la figuration du déclin de la civilisation occidentale pour laquelle ces textes sont connus, la question-clé soulevée dans ces récits s’avère être l’imagination de moyens pour s’échapper de notre monde.En se focalisant sur l’étude de sept textes écrits par Houellebecq, comptant six romans et une nouvelle, cette thèse analyse le rôle de l’ambivalence à travers quatre aspects de la représentation utopique : l’espace, la rhétorique, l’idéologie, et la forme. Pour ce faire, elle s’appuie sur les études critiques des théoriciens Louis Marin, Fredric Jameson, Ernst Bloch et Tom Moylan, dont les études procurent une base méthodologique pour identifier et interpréter l’ambivalence utopique du corpus. Par cette analyse, cette thèse révèle un cadre qui permet de relire l’utopie houellebecquienne comme une réflexion critique sur le désir et l’imagination utopique. En outre, elle approfondit l’interprétation des romans de Houellebecq en tant que produits littéraires et sociaux complexes, pluriels et dynamiques.Ainsi, cette thèse soutient que les romans de Houellebecq sont des représentations d’un utopisme ambivalent. En proposant une lecture des romans de Houellebecq qui ne se limite pas nécessairement à l’anti-utopisme et le désespoir, cette étude offre une démonstration exhaustive de la complexité par laquelle Houellebecq met en scène la possibilité et l’impossibilité du désir utopique de notre époque. De cette façon, elle démontre comment, en poursuivant l’impossible, l’écriture de Houellebecq offre une extension de la fonction critique propre à l’utopie, amenant le lecteur face aux limites de sa propre imagination tout en exprimant le désir persistant de sa poursuite
This thesis examines utopian representations in the novels of Michel Houellebecq. Moving beyond previous definitions of Houellebecq’s utopias as either utopian, dystopian, or anti-utopian, it explores the ways in which the reading of ambivalence may provide the means for a re-evaluation of these works, in line with critical trends in the utopian genre. In doing so, this thesis seeks to show that beyond the depiction of Western decline that these texts are typically known for, one of the driving questions of Houellebecq’s writing is how to imagine a way out of our current bind.Focussing on a corpus of seven primary texts, comprising Houellebecq’s six novels and one novella, this thesis analyses the role of ambivalence across four key aspects of Houellebecq’s utopian representation: space, rhetoric, ideology, and form. In doing so, it draws on the critical utopian theory of Louis Marin, Fredric Jameson, Ernst Bloch and Tom Moylan to provide the methodological framework for the identification and interpretation of utopian ambivalence in the corpus. Through this line of enquiry, this thesis demonstrates the potential for reading Houellebecq’s utopias as critical reflections on utopian desire and imagination within the context of our contemporary society, and, in doing so, it illustrates how the study of ambivalence offers a greater understanding of Houellebecq’s texts as complex literary and social products. As such, this thesis argues for the understanding of Houellebecq’s novels as complex and ambivalent portrayals of utopianism. By proposing an interpretation of Houellebecq’s utopian paradigms that is not necessarily limited to the reading of anti-utopianism and despair, this thesis thus provides a comprehensive demonstration of the complexity by which Houellebecq foregrounds the contingency of utopian desire, through his representations. In this way, this thesis shows how, by pursuing the impossible, Houellebecq’s writing offers an extension of utopia’s critical function, bringing the reader face to face with the limits of their own utopian imagination while portraying the continued desire for utopian pursuits
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Brandão, Gandhia Vargas. "Literatura e pós-modernidade : "produtos" do capitalismo no romance Extensão do domínio da luta, de Michel Houellebecq." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2008. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/1182.

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Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literaturas, 2008.
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Esta pesquisa concentra-se na investigação do entrelaçamento dos temas: pósmodernidade, capitalismo, civilização, identidade e esquizofrenia com alguns exemplos da produção literária contemporânea, mais especificamente aquela que trata do sujeito contemporâneo como resultado da efervescência de acontecimentos do século XX. Esta literatura é representada neste trabalho por Extensão do domínio da luta (HOUELLEBECQ, 1994/2004), obra do escritor francês Michel Houellebecq, primeiro romance publicado do autor, que constitui o corpo de análise desta pesquisa. Os demais romances de Houellebecq, Partículas elementares (1998/1999), Plataforma (2001/2002) e A possibilidade de uma ilha (2005/2006) são explorados como reforçadores de conceitos, já que funcionam como universos extensivos em que as idéias de Extensão do domínio da luta aparecem. Para tanto, vemos primeiramente o que se diz da época atual, amparados por pensadores como Jean-François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson, David Harvey e Linda Hutcheon. Logo depois, amparados por Michel Foucault, Friedrich Nietzsche e Roland Barthes, traçamos panorama da expressão artística desde o início da idade moderna até a contemporaneidade. Em seguida, amparados por Eric Hobsbawn, nos aprofundamos nesse campo, ressaltando a evolução do sistema econômico capitalista e suas relações com a arte e a literatura com o objetivo de compreender os elos existentes entre a contemporaneidade e o capitalismo. Por último, amparados por Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari, como contraponto da teoria psicanalítica freudiana, destacamos uma das conseqüências do modo de vida capitalista, a esquizofrenia – de efeitos não muito animadores por um lado, mas libertários por outro –, é advinda da negação que o sistema capitalista impõe ao ser humano de sua complexidade. No tocante à literatura, este estudo pretende situá-la entre modernidade e pósmodernidade, levantando algumas possibilidades de compreensão por meio da relação com outras categorias de texto, tais como o ensaio. _________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT
This research focuses on the investigation of the interlacement among the topics: post-modernity, capitalism, civilization, identity, schizophrenia and some examples of the contemporary literature production, mainly that which concerns the contemporary man as a result of the twentieth century. This literature is represented here by Extensão do domínio da luta (HOUELLEBECQ, 1994/2004), first novel of Michel Houellebecq, which is the analysis corpus of this research. The other Houellebecq’s novels: Partículas elementares (1998/1999), Plataforma (2001/2002) and A possibilidade de uma ilha (2005/2006) are explored as concept reinforcers because they work as extensive universes in which the ideas of Extensão do domínio da luta appear. Firstly, there is a discussion about our contemporary world. This discussion is supported by the theories of thinkers such as Jean-François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson, David Harvey and Linda Hutcheon. Then, supported by the ideas of Michel Foucault, Friedrich Nietzsche and Roland Barthes, there is a panorama of the artistic expression since the beginning of modern age up to our contemporary age. After that, supported by Eric Hobsbawn, we go deeper in this subject, reinforcing the evolution of the capitalist economical system and its relations to art and literature with the objective of understanding the links between the contemporary age and capitalism. Finally, supported by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, as a counterpoint to Freud’s psychoanalysis, one of the capitalist lifestyle consequences is remarked: schizophrenia. That, with not very exciting effects but on the other hand a freedom giver, comes from the human’s attitude, imposed by the capitalist system, of denying its own complexity. In relation to literature, this work intends to place it among modernity and postmodernity making some possibilities of comprehension arise through the association of it with other categories of text, such as the critical essay.
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Atallah, Marc. "Le souhait secret d’une verticalité – l’œuvre de Michel Houellebecq : entre modernité et postmodernité." In Les Dieux cachés de la science fiction française et francophone (1950- 2010), 103–10. Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/books.pub.12321.

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