Michel Houellebecq

H. P. Lovecraft

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The award-winning French novelist pays tribute to a literary hero in this critical biography of the master of horror—with a foreword by Stephen King.
Best known for his acclaimed novels, such as the Prix Goncourt-winning The Map and the Territory, Michael Houellebecq devotes his single work of nonfiction to the pioneering author of horror and weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft. In a volume that is part biographical sketch and part pronouncement on existence and literature, France's most famous contemporary author praises his prewar American alter ego, whose style couldn't be less like his own.
With a foreword by Lovecraft admirer Stephen King, this eloquently translated edition is an insightful introduction to both Lovecraft’s dark mythology and Houellebecq’s deadpan prose.
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111 printed pages
Original publication
2019
Publication year
2019
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  • Eduardo Barenashas quoted2 years ago
    Dreams were what Lovecraft knew well—they were, in a sense, his preserve
  • Eduardo Barenashas quoted2 years ago
    HPL’s writings have but one aim: to bring the reader to a state of fascination. The only human sentiments he is interested in are wonderment and fear. He constructs his universe upon these and these alone. It is clearly a limitation, but a conscious, deliberate one. And authentic creativity cannot exist without a certain degree of self-imposed blindness.
  • Eduardo Barenashas quoted2 years ago
    And if he refused all sexual allusions in his work, it was first and foremost because he felt such allusions had no place in his aesthetic universe.
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