Anti-Matter: Michel Houellebecq and Depressive Realism [Audiobook] download free by Ben Jeffery
- Listen audiobook: Anti-Matter: Michel Houellebecq and Depressive Realism
- Author: Ben Jeffery
- Release date: 2011/5/9
- Publisher: JOHN HUNT PUBLISHING
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781846949227
- Rating: 8.89 of 10
- Votes: 705
- Review by: Annette Alcala
- Review rating: 8.06 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/15
- Duration: 1H19M12S in 256 kbps (21 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-28
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, FLAC, MP3, MPEG4, MOD, WAV (compression ZIP, RAR, TAR.XZ, TZ, CAB, RZ)
- Total pages original book: 105
- Includes a PDF summary of 10 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 6M30S (2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Michel Houellebecq, author of five novels including Atomised and Platform, has become possibly the world's most famous literary pessimist. His work declares that life is painful and disappointing, death is terrifying, and the human condition is a nasty sort of joke. He has been wildly successful - translated into over 25 different languages and hailed as the voice of a generation. Beginning with Houellebecq's novels, this book explores the concept of 'Depressive Realism' in literature and philosophy - the proposition that the facts of life are bleak and unkind. Ranging over work by David Foster Wallace, Susan Sontag, Fredric Jameson and Margaret Atwood, Anti-Matter surveys the case for pessimism, asks how a mass culture rooted in sentimentality and trivialisation manages to produce so much cynicism and apathy, and hunts for the space that remains for serious, life-affirming art.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers, Philosophy, Literary Studies: From C 1900 -
- Download servers: Uploaded, FileServe, Microsoft OneDrive, Mediafire, vBoxxCloud. Compressed in ZIP, RAR, TAR.XZ, TZ, CAB, RZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 11.31 USD
- Dimensions: 141x223x5mm
- Weight: 136g
- Printed by: Zero Books
- Published in: Ropley, United Kingdom
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