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He writes novels that land like grenades in the culture — Islam, sex, despair, the slow collapse of meaning in Western life — and the fury and fascination follow in equal measure. France calls him both its greatest living writer and its most dangerous.
Born Michel Thomas on 26 February 1956, he started with a biographical essay on H. P. Lovecraft before publishing his first novel Whatever in 1994. Atomised arrived in 1998 and brought international fame and immediate controversy. An offhand remark about Islam during the 2001 publicity tour for Platform landed him in court on charges of inciting racial hatred; he was cleared, then left for Ireland for several years before returning to France. The Map and the Territory won the Prix Goncourt in 2010. Submission, published in 2015, sparked fresh accusations of plagiarism — later deemed inadmissib…
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You get used to terrorist attacks. France will hold on. The French will hold on, without even needing a “sursaut national,” a national pushback reflex.
But isn't this an illusion? We know that men, given the chance to choose for themselves, will all make exactly the same same choice.
I was very shocked that it was called a theory. It's not a theory, it's a fact.
To begin with Tisserand appeared to be interested in a twenty-something brunette, a secretary most like. I was highly inclined to approve of his choice.
On my return I sensed that something new was in the offing. A girl was sitting at the table next to mine, alone.
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