Soumission by Michel Houellebecq

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


A novel with only one real character, the narrator -- a self-satisfied pedant, with no redeeming qualities. I'd put it in a category with Sartre's Nausee and Dostoyevsky's Letters from the Underground, but nowhere near as interesting and important.

This book does serve, however, as an introduction to current French sex-related word usage. Many of the terms/usages can't be found in French-English dictionaries, but can be deciphered online.



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