Platform

Name: Platform
Rating: 3.1 (8 reviews)
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9781448105472

by Unknown Author

3.1

(8 ratings)

320 pages2016Penguin Random HouseISBN 9781448105472

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"Michel Renault is a human void. Following the death of the father he barely knew, he endures his civil service job while eking out an existence of prepackaged pleasure, hollow friendships, TV dinners, and pornography. On a group holiday in Thailand, however, he meets the shyly compelling Valerie, who soon pursues an agenda that Michel himself could never have thought possible: his own humanization." "Back in Paris, they plunge into an affair that strays into S&M, public sex, and partner swapping, even as they devise a scheme to save Valerie's ailing travel company by capitalizing on the only trade Michel has seen flourish in the third World. Before long, he quits his job, and their business model for "sex tourism" is gradually implemented. But when they return to Thailand, where Michel's philosophy will be put into practice, he discovers that sex is neither the most consuming nor dangerous of passions."--BOOK JACKET

Publication Details

Publisher: Penguin Random House
Published: 2016
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781448105472

About Unknown Author

Michel Thomas, dit Michel Houellebecq est un écrivain, poète, essayiste et acteur français né le 26 février 1956 à Saint-Pierre (La Réunion). Il est révélé par les romans *Extension du domaine de la lutte* (1994) et surtout *Les Particules élémentaires* (1998), qui le fait connaître d'un large public. Ce dernier roman et son livre suivant *Plateforme* (2001) sont considérés comme précurseurs dans la littérature française, notamment pour leur description de la misère affective et sexuelle de l'homme occidental dans les années 1990 et 2000. Avec *La Carte et le Territoire,* Michel Houellebecq reçoit le prix Goncourt en 2010, après avoir été plusieurs fois pressenti pour ce prix. Son œuvre est traduite en plus de 40 langues. ---------- Michel Thomas, known as Michel Houellebecq, is a French writer, poet, essayist, and actor born on February 26, 1956, in Saint-Pierre, Réunion. He rose to prominence with the novels *Whatever* *(Extension du domaine de la lutte,* 1994) and especially *The Elementary Particles* *(Les Particules élémentaires,* 1998), which brought him to the attention of a wide audience. The latter novel and his subsequent book, *Platform* (2001), are considered groundbreaking in French literature, particularly for their depiction of the emotional and sexual deprivation of Western man in the 1990s and 2000s. With *The Map and the Territory* *(La Carte et le Territoire),* Michel Houellebecq received the Prix Goncourt in 2010, after having been a contender several times. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages.