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Michel Houellebecq
ISBN: 9781852425845
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
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Ever found yourself all at sea at work? Suffered from information overload? If you have, Houellebecq's grim, funny and clever tongue-in-cheek exploration of corporate jargon, psychobabble and the ineffectual use of long words is for you…
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until, that is, he's packed off with a colleague - the unimaginably ugly, sexually-frustrated virgin Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system. This is a painfully realistic portrayal of the vanishing freedom of a world governed by science and by the empty rituals of daily life.
| ISBN | 1852425849 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | ISBN13 | 9781852425845
(What's this?) | | Pages | 176 | | Publisher | Profile Books Ltd | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | Serpent's Tail | | Weight (grammes) | 121 | | Format | Paperback | | Published in | London | | Publication date | 14 Jan 1999 | | Height (mm) | 200 | | Non-book description | book | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Translator | Paul Hammond | | Spine width (mm) | 13 | | Library of Congress | PQ | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY | 843.914 | |
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