But how can you read Houellebecq? And dʹailleurs, do you have to?

Raphaël Baroni, professor of narratology at the lʹUniversité de Lausanne, deciphers the narratives of the French writer, often prey to polemics. What if this work were in fact unreadable, far from the usual descriptions of fluid, immersive? And how can we distinguish between the authorʹs voice and those of his characters? The book raises a timely question: can we separate the man from the work? Is it even necessary?