Already honored with the Prix Novembre and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Michel Houellebecq won the Prix Goncourt for The Map and the Territory in 2010.
Praise for The Map and the Territory:
Winner of the 2010 Prix Goncourt
“A serious reflection on art, death, and contemporary
society, The Map and the Territory is a tour de
force.”—The Los Angeles Review of Books
"Powerful. . . . [A] singular novel. . . . Archly sarcastic,
cheerily pedantic, willfully brutal." —The New York Times Book
Review
“An ingenious and engaging composite of künstlerroman and police
procedural; a novel of ideas; and an authorial self-reflection."
–The Boston Globe
"All novelists everywhere have benefited from [Houellebecq's]
audacity. . . . his temerity has recharged the form and reminded
people what the novel can do." --The Sunday Times
“Funny, astonishing and authoritative. . . . This is the brilliant
and controversial French writer’s most intellectually ambitious
book..” —The Guardian
“Beautifully, accurately translated . . . . If ever there was a
novelist for our globally dysfunctional times it’s Michel
Houellebecq. . . . Long cast aside as the bad boy of books, [his]
latest novel has seen him brought in from the cold, and embraced by
the literary establishment for what he’s always been – not much
short of a genius.” —The Mirror
“One of the most important facts about Michel Houellebecq . . . is
that he is a first-rate prose stylist. . . . Teasing and
entertaining. . . . A page turner.” —Literary Review
"Houellebecq's bewitching journey on the river of art to the cave
of death and decay is a tale of eviscerating insight, caustic
humor, troubling beauty, and haunting provocation." –Booklist
"[Houellebecq is] a trenchant, sharp-tongued social
commentator.”—Bookforum
“Very likely his best [book] ever, a serious novel about aging and
death that also employs its author’s trademark lugubrious wit
towards some delicious exercises in satire and self-parody. . . .
Challenging, mature and highly intelligent.” —The Daily
Telegraph
“A dark master of invention. . . . In a world of copycatting and
fakery, Michel Houellebecq is an exceptional writer and a stand-out
original.” —Evening Standard
“An astonishing writer. . . . The Map and the
Territory is funny, shocking, brutal and unbearably poignant.
. . . Sublime.” —Scotland on Sunday
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