Two years ago, at 2011, was published in Europe "The Map and the Territory", the latest book of the enfant terrible of french literature, considered by the critics -and by himself- the France's greatest living novelist, "the first literary star since Sartre": Michel Houellebecq. So when he vanished from his own promotional book tour for a week, in which nobody could assure exactly where he was, nobody was alarmed, it was not a big surprise, surely a bad marketing strategy. As the journalist refers, it was considered "as a mere quirk", an extravagance.
Houellebecq never explained a thing about it.
But this year, "in a twist worthy of one of his books", report the news, a filmmaker announced the premiere of a film based on a couple of lightly rumors that circulated about his disappearance: he was kidnapped by Al-Qaeda.
There are reason to believe that. He is openly close to islamophobe ideas and he has received many dead menaces because of the critics to Islam written in his novels. But in contrast to this, the film director is very ambiguous on his declaration about the veracity of the history. A detail to regard: the own Houellebecq is the protagonist of the film.
This perfectly can be a fiction, in fact we all would bet that option, is the most probable end. But at this moment there are not a clear answer, there are not trues and there are no lies. Maybe we never know if is truth or not, but if there are rebels in this century, clearly two of them are Houellebecq and Al-Qaeda. It will be a pleasure see it together.
This perfectly can be a fiction, in fact we all would bet that option, is the most probable end. But at this moment there are not a clear answer, there are not trues and there are no lies. Maybe we never know if is truth or not, but if there are rebels in this century, clearly two of them are Houellebecq and Al-Qaeda. It will be a pleasure see it together.
That sound like make a movie about a strange event that maybe never happen.. He says more about that?
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