Product Details
- Paperback: 155 pages
- Publisher: Serpent’s Tail (February 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1852425849
- ISBN-13: 978-1852425845
- Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 4.8 x 0.5 inches
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
The unnamed narrator of Houellebecq’s novel is Marcuse’s one-dimensional man. A single, 30-year-old computer engineer in Paris with no sex life, he suffers from a chronic passivity that, in Houellebecq’s view, is characteristic of Generation X. He buys, but doesn’t take joy in any of the things he possesses. He has acquaintances, but no friends.
