Addresses the religious, metaphysical, and existential dimensions of French novelist Michel Houellebecq's work. Argues that Houellebecq is the foremost contemporary chronicler of the spiritual anxieties of Western and specifically French modernity. Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Author(s): Louis (Assistant Professor of French, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater) Betty Number of pages: 176 Publication date: 2017 Dimensions: 230 x 154 x 14 Cover type: Paperback / softback