The Map and the Territory

A delicious exercise in satire and self-parody… His best ever * Daily Telegraph *
The outlaw of French letters returns with an acerbic riff on art and celebrity… witty, wildly erudite * The Times *
A dark master of invention… From the very first paragraph of this brilliant novel, the reader can be in no doubt that they’re in the blisteringly bleak, darkly inventive grand massif that is Houellebeqc land * Evening Standard *
This book, so beautifully written, so inspiriting for all its pessimism, is the new novel I have loved best this year. We have not his equal – David Sexton * Spectator *
Impressive… Beguiling… He is a true original * Observer *
Elegiac… Compelling… A pleasure to read * Times Literary Supplement *
Have Michel Houellebecq and Martin Amis ever met? Despite a stylistic gulf…they might be spiritual cousins… In this Goncourt-winning novel, as amiably mischievous as the enfant terrible ever gets, his satirical burlesques of the Parisian art world and of tourist kitsch in La France Profonde comes closer to his cross-Channel twin than ever – Boyd Tonkin * Independent Radar *
A wry, clever, ruthlessly self-lacerating novel – David Evans * Independent on Sunday *

Michel Houellebecq is a poet, essayist and novelist. He is the author of several novels including The Map and the Territory (winner of the Prix Goncourt), Atomised, Platform, Whatever and Submission. He was awarded the Legion d’Honneur in 2019.

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