Books Details
Author : Michel Houellebecq Pages : 60 pages Publisher : Polity
Press Language : ISBN-10 : 1509543252 ISBN-13 : 9781509543250
Books Descriptions
The work of Michel Houellebecq - one of the most widely read
and controversial novelists of our time - is marked by the
thought of Schopenhauer. When Houellebecq came across a copy of
Schopenhauer's Aphorisms in a library in his mid-twenties, he
was bowled over by it and he hunted down a copy of his major
philosophical work, The World as Will and Representation.
Houellebecq found in Schopenhauer - the radical pessimist, the
chronicler of human suffering, the lonely misanthrope - a
powerful conception of the human condition and of the future
that awaits us, and when Houellebecq's first writings appeared
in the early 1990s, the influence of Schopenhauer was
everywhere apparent. But it was only much later, in 2005, that
Houellebecq began to translate and write a commentary on
Schopenhauer's work. He thought of turning it into a book but
soon abandoned the idea and the text remained unpublished until
2017. Now available in English for the first time, In the
Presence of Schopenhauer is
