Houllebecq married: the possibility of an escape5 reading minutes

Le Regard Libre N° 45 - Thierry Fivaz

Writer Michel Houellebecq got married on September 21. The bride is Qianyum Lysis Li, twenty years his junior. If, most of the time, a marriage is an event of little interest or consequence in the lives of individuals, wouldn't this one have potentially catastrophic effects for the author of Les Particules élémentaires? For how can one remain a cynical, disillusioned, defeatist, nihilistic writer - in short, how can Michel be Houellebecq if Michel is swimming in happiness?

The affair made no noise. Only the most discerning knew about it. In fact, it would have gone completely unnoticed, had Carla Bruni not posted on social networks a «Mille vœux de bonheur à Lysis et à Michel Houellebecq pour leur merveilleux mariage», a message as original as a «courage» lan