As we finish Michel Houellebecq's new novel, we think of his poem
Last Times: "There will be death, you know my love / There will be misfortune and the very last days / We never forget anything, the words and the faces / Float happily to the last shore / There will be regret, then a very heavy sleep. "
Because the last 130 pages of
Annihilate
- which has 736 - are the poignant story of the last days of a man facing illness.
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