The Possibility of an Island
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The Possibility of an Island
14.99 €
One of the most famous novels by the French writer Michel Houellebecq has been attracting the constant interest of readers all over the world for almost two decades.
The novel cannot be called a story in the usual sense (and the author does not consider himself a "story teller" at all), the narrative seems to be woven from many threads. There is an eternal plot about love, and the signs of the present (show business, totalitarian sects), and a fantastic and frighteningly convincing picture of the future, in which there are non-humans - direct cloned descendants of modern people, "looking at the world with understanding, but without participation", not knowing pain and suffering, whose life is prosperous, but somehow unbearable. This telebridge between the present and the future is made with such cinematic precision that it shocks and mesmerizes, overturns the established ideas about the structure of the world and society, perhaps even blurring the line between reality and fiction.
The novel cannot be called a story in the usual sense (and the author does not consider himself a "story teller" at all), the narrative seems to be woven from many threads. There is an eternal plot about love, and the signs of the present (show business, totalitarian sects), and a fantastic and frighteningly convincing picture of the future, in which there are non-humans - direct cloned descendants of modern people, "looking at the world with understanding, but without participation", not knowing pain and suffering, whose life is prosperous, but somehow unbearable. This telebridge between the present and the future is made with such cinematic precision that it shocks and mesmerizes, overturns the established ideas about the structure of the world and society, perhaps even blurring the line between reality and fiction.
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