Houellebecq’s ‘Submission’: Islam and France’s Malaise
French literary star Michel Houellebecq’s new novel Soummission has been widely pilloried as islamophobic in the French media. The book depicts the “submission” of France to Islamic rule – or, at any rate, to the government of an Islamic party – in the not-so-distant future of 2022. But on closer inspection, Houellebecq’s novel is less [...]
- June 16th, 2015
- Tags: Houellebecq, Islam and France, Le Front National, Soummission