The return of the writer Michel Houellebecq, almost invisible since the publication in 2019 of his last novel, will be on stage to declaim poetry, his publisher announced on Friday.
The novelist "
will perform on November 7, 8 and 10 for five unpublished performances of
Existence at Low Altitude," Flammarion said in a statement.
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Tickets for these performances at the Rex Club, in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, are on sale from Tuesday.
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Michel Houellebecq, accompanied by Victorien Bornéat, Hugues Jourdain and Margot de Rochefort will recite more than 30 of his poems, to the music of the producer Romain Poncet,
" said the publisher.
After
Serotonin
in 2019, the author, Prix Goncourt 2010, published the following year a collection of essays and various positions,
Interventions 2020
, which he did not promote.
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I don't absolutely promise to stop thinking, but at least to stop communicating my thoughts and opinions to the public, except in cases of serious moral emergency -
for example a legalization of euthanasia
(I don't think it There are others, in the time that remains for me to live)
”, wrote the writer at the time, on the back cover.
Paris Match
said in August that its next novel would be released in January 2022. Flammarion gave no indication on this subject. The novelist will be in the film
Rumba la vie
, under the direction of Franck Dubosc who signs his second film as a director, scheduled in theaters on January 19, 2022.
In an Instagram post, dating from last October, we see the photo of the sulphurous author of
Submission
wearing a white coat in a hospital setting, embellished with a concise comment from his agent: "
Houellebecq, pincess doctor -rir, on the set of
Rumba Therapy
by Franck Dubosc.
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