“Submission” as a play – As politically topical “submission” is – Süddeutsche.de

In France rampant fear of strangers and Islamization. Michel Houellebecq novel takes up the debate on ball – and interweaves them with the Front National.

Michel Houellebecq “Submission” is the same in many respects with Islamist terrorist attacks of January 2015 interwoven. The novel came on the day in the bookshops, where the Kouachi brothers in Paris its stop editorial team committed to the Charlie-Hebdo. On the cover of Hebdo -Issue that appeared that day, Houellebecq was to see themselves – as a clairvoyant, the magic cloak. His close friend Bernard Maris, who had written in said output a hymnal meeting of the book, died in the attack

And then of course there is the substantive connection. “Submission” plays 2022. The country is in a kind of civil war, in the suburbs, there are nightly attacks and skirmishes. His vision, which makes the novel so refined, is now but not gloomy, but all around harmoniously: In order to prevent the seizure of power by the National Front, the two major parties help a moderate Islamists on the presidential chair. This last round of social peace is in the country. All women disappear from one day to the next from the labor market. The result is full employment (of course only for the men), the whole banlieue precariat comes earn a living, prospering the economy.

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But for the elite jumps a lot out there. Well, the crescent blowing over the Sorbonne, which is funded now by the Saudis, but even an ugly drip like François, Houellebecq gray hero who would have had no chance on the open market of desire, suddenly come to enjoy a little harem: He will marry three wives of his choice. No wonder that he without a murmur the gentle illiberal transformation accepts: Henceforth stricter dress codes apply, citizens should please convert – and accept that so outdated things like human rights or press freedom and freedom to be cashed. The Saudis pay fantastic salaries. “I have nothing to regret” – the first-person narrator François says in the last sentence of the novel this surrendering

The Front National has become a kind of cultural hegemony attained

interview with Michel Houellebecq “life is sad without religion Beyond measure”

Michel Houellebecq has tried with Catholicism. And with Buddhism. In the latter, he had “terribly bored,” says the author of “submission”. A conversation about religion – and France. Interview

Even France, this deeper sinking in a permanent crisis country flourishes here again, yes it is finally back Great power: the new president forges together an empire that includes the size of the Roman Empire, including all the Maghreb countries

Houellebecq drives in his book a frivolous game with the commercial alienation fears. live between 3 in France , 5 and six million Muslims, which are between five and nine percent of the population. A takeover by an Islamist party in addition to cultural hegemony in the near future are unlikely.