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SUBMISSION TO THE UNCANNY. WHY DOES HOUELLEBECQ’S PROSE PROVOKE DISCOMFORT IN THE MEDIA AND PUBLIC SPACE?

Since his first appearance on the European literary scene, Michel Houellebecq has not sto- pped dividing the media and the public alike. Literary criticism has repeatedly emphasized the controversy of his prose, in which, among other things, reactionism, racism, misogyny, misant- hropy, vulgarity, populism, nihilism, and cynicism are frequently recognized. The paper analyzes what the media that form the public opinion, which also constitute academia communication channels, recognize as offensive in Houellebecq’s prose. The starting point of the paper is that the contemporary culture faces the uncanny emerging from his prose with great uneasiness.

Houellebecq, the Real, culture, ethics, and politics of narration

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