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In this PPF+ bonus to accompany our summer fictions season David discusses Michel Houellebecq’s explosive political and intellectual satire Submission (2015). Published seven years before the French Presidential election of 2022 it imagines what might happen if that contest were won by the Muslim Brotherhood candidate. Does the book deserve its toxic reputation? Is it an attack on French politics, religion or academia (or all three)? And how can its miserable narrator be so insightful and so repulsive all at the same time?
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August 17, 2024