"Michel Houellebecq makes one of
the most authentic Catholic voices of our time
heard in my ear
," writes Dominican Father Olivier-Thomas Venard, normalien, doctor of letters and theology, at the end of a brilliant analysis published in
Misère de l man without God,
a volume composed of conference proceedings on the religious question in the work of Houellebecq. The Dominican, who for a year scrutinized the writer's collections of poems, underlines the constant references to the Scriptures, the taste for the liturgy, the Catholic conception of sexuality, which can be divine or malefic
(“Female bodies, sperm of males / Mixed for a prayer / That we return to the infernal powers ”).
He also notes the persistence in the poet, despite all his dislikes, of a hope, a faith and a charity, present -
"not as virtues but as theological impulses",
specifies Venard.
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