CHRONICLER OF EXACERBATED INDIVIDUALISM WITHOUT INDIVIDUALITY – ON MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
Asked what the post-Covid world would be like, the most famous of contemporary French writers, Michel Houellebecq, replied with his customary asperity: “The same – only worse.” This is because, according to him, if I have read him aright, deterioration in our modern world never misses an opportunity to take