To annihilate
: such is the title, to say the least sober, of the next novel by Michel Houellebecq, which appears in red letters on a white background, a name kept secret since the announcement of its publication by its publisher since 1996, Flammarion, a few years ago. weeks, and with a bookstore release announced for Friday, January 7, 2022.
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An eighth novel, three years after the international success of
Sérotonine
, 734 pages strong, and initially printed in 300,000 copies.
It will appear in a hardcover edition with a hard cover with a red bookmark.
Sale price: 26 euros.
A special edition, wanted by Michel Houellebecq, inspired by what is done in Germany or the United States, and supposed to withstand the test of time.
Already, three previous novels republished in mid-November, benefit from this new sober dressing with white cover;
it is about
Extension du domaine de la Lutte
, published in 1994,
Elementary Particles
and
Platform
.
To learn a little more about this voluminous novel, illustrated with a few black and white drawings, you will have to wait until Thursday, December 30, the date of the lifting of the embargo.
Flammarion
No promotion
To learn a little more about this voluminous novel, illustrated with a few black and white drawings, you will have to wait until Thursday, December 30, the date of the lifting of the embargo.
In a press release accompanying the book, Flammarion was careful to specify that “
no exclusivity of any kind is or will be granted to anyone.
"Adding that the winner of the Goncourt 2010 for
La Carte et le Territoire
will not make any promotion on this occasion and"
will not give an interview, neither to the written press, nor to the audiovisual press.
"
This expected release of
Anéantir will be
accompanied, on the one hand, by the publication in pocket format, in the "Champs" collection by Flammarion, of an unpublished collective work on Michel Houellebecq and the question of faith (
Misère de l ' man without god
).
And on the other hand, the reissue, in the same collection, of
Houellebecq, the art of consolation
by Agathe Novak-Lechevalier (master builder of the Cahier de l'Herne which was dedicated to him in 2017), and first appeared in 2018, by Stock editions.
