Cartographie des malaises français Soumission et Sérotonine de Michel Houellebecq

Abstract

The critique of liberalism and its impact on all facets of life is a topic that structures Michel Houellebecq’snovels. His last two novels, Submissionand Serotonin, point out the dislocation of society into many parts that no longer communicate because they hold different values and occasionally end up clashing. Writing a work of fiction, like the Naturalist novelists, is a way to conduct political and social experiments toproduce an analysis of the contemporary world. This analysis is created by a singular voice that imposes its temperament, its obsessions,and its convictions on this representation of reality. This paperwill try to expose the character of this voice and the tensions it describes in French society.