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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?