This novel is most noteable for its apparent condoning of sex tourism and anti-Muslim feelings was by the same author who published a book of poems called what?
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Platform (novel) Platform (French: "Plateforme" ) is a 2001 novel by French writer Michel Houellebecq (translated into English by Frank Wynne). It has received both great praise and great criticism, most notably for the novel's apparent condoning of sex tourism and anti-Muslim feelings. Houellebecq was charged for inciting racial and religious hatred after describing Islam as "stupid", but the charges were ultimately dismissed.
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Michel Houellebecq Michel Houellebecq (] ; born Michel Thomas; 26 February 1956) is a French author, filmmaker, and poet. Having written poetry and a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, he published his first novel, "Whatever", in 1994. "Atomised" followed in 1998, and "Platform" in 2001. He published a book of poems, "The Art of Struggle", in 1996.
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The Tourist (novel) The Tourist is an espionage novel written by Olen Steinhauer in 2009, that was featured on The New York Times' list of best sellers. The story follows Milo Weaver, an agent with a secret branch of the CIA specializing in black ops known as the Tourists. George Clooney's production company has purchased the film rights to the novel with Clooney rumored to be playing the role of Weaver.
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Bottom's Dream Bottom's Dream (German: "Zettels Traum" or "ZETTEL’S TRAUM" as the author wrote the title) is a novel published in 1970 by West German author Arno Schmidt. Schmidt began writing the novel in December 1963 while he and Hans Wollschläger began to translate the works of Edgar Allan Poe into German. The novel was inspired by James Joyce's novel "Finnegans Wake", particularly Schmidt's use of columns (his "SpaltenTechnik"), which Schmidt claimed was borrowed from the "Wake".
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Sarah May Sarah May (born 1972 in Northumberland) is an English author. Her first book, "The Nudist Colony" (1999), was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Her other books include "Spanish City" (2002), "The Internationals" (2003), and "The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia" (2006). A reviewer in "The Guardian" wrote of "Spanish City": "the world conjured into view by May's slanted approach to scene and dialogue is peculiarly charged and vivid."
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Steven Nightingale Steven Nightingale is an author of books of poetry, novels, and essays.
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Algernon Charles Swinburne Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as "Poems and Ballads", and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the "Encyclopædia Britannica".
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Emma Parker Emma Parker ("fl" 1809–1817), was a novelist residing in Wales and writing in English, of whom very little is known. Her epistolary novel "Self-Deception" explores the cultural and religious differences between the English and the French.
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Ode to Gallantry Ode to Gallantry is a wuxia novel by Jin Yong (Louis Cha). It was first serialised in Hong Kong from 11 June 1966 to 19 April 1967 in the newspaper "Ming Pao". The novel shares the same Chinese title as a poem by the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai, which was used as its epigraph.
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Jaume Sanllorente Jaume Sanllorente (born 1976) is a Spanish journalist. In 2005 he founded a charitable organisation, Sonrisas de Bombay ("Bombay smiles"), to provide help to the poorest and most disadvantaged people of Mumbai, India. He later wrote a book about it, "Sonrisas de Bombay. El viaje que cambió mi destino". In 2011 he published his first novel, "La canción de la concubina", a fictionalised account of sex-trafficking in the Philippines.
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Collected Poems (Larkin) Collected Poems is the title of a posthumous collection of Philip Larkin's poetry edited by Anthony Thwaite and published by Faber and Faber. He released two notably different editions in 1988 and 2003, the first of which also includes previously unpublished work. Both editions contain the contents of Larkin's collections "The North Ship", "The Less Deceived", "The Whitsun Weddings" and "High Windows", plus other material.
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Chemmeen (novel) Chemmeen (Malayalam: ചെമ്മീൻ , cemmīn ] , lit. prawn) is a Malayalam novel written by Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai in 1956. "Chemmeen" tells the story of the relationship between Karuthamma, the daughter of a Hindu fisherman, and Pareekutti, the son of a Muslim fish wholesaler. The theme of the novel is a myth among the fishermen communities along the coastal Kerala State in the Southern India. The myth is about chastity. If the married fisher woman was infidel when her husband was in the sea, the Sea Goddess ("Kadalamma" literally means Mother Sea) would consume him. It is to perpetuate this myth that Thakazhi wrote this beautiful novel. It was adapted into a film of same name, which won critical acclaim and commercial success.
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Holy Deadlock Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author A. P. Herbert, which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view of the need for divorces, which it characterised as "a relief from misfortune, not a crime", and demonstrated how the current system created an environment which encouraged the participants to commit perjury and adultery. The book was a major element in the popular debate about the liberalisation of divorce law in the mid-1930s, and helped pave the way for the 1937 statutory reforms.
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William Hope Hodgson William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 – April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction. Hodgson used his experiences at sea to lend authentic detail to his short horror stories, many of which are set on the ocean, including his series of linked tales forming the "Sargasso Sea Stories". His novels, such as "The House on the Borderland" (1908) and "The Night Land" (1912), feature more cosmic themes, but several of his novels also focus on horrors associated with the sea. Early in his writing career Hodgson dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his poems were published during his lifetime. He also attracted some notice as a photographer and achieved renown as a bodybuilder. He died in World War I at age 40.
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Grits (novel) Grits is the debut novel by British author Niall Griffiths, published in 2000 by Jonathan Cape. Set in and around Aberystwyth and concerning promiscuity, drugs, alcohol, and petty crime it gained for its author, who lives and works in the town the dubious honorific "the Welsh Irvine Welsh". The novel is largely autobiographical, Griffiths moved to Aberystwyth to research a PhD in post-war British poetry but soon became, as he puts it, an "enthusiastic participator in parties" and dropped out of his studies.
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A Thing of Beauty A Thing of Beauty is a novel by author A. J. Cronin, initially published in 1956, with the alternate title of "Crusader's Tomb". It tells the story of Stephen Desmonde, an English painter who struggles for recognition in a conventional world, sacrificing everything for his passion for art. The title is a reference to John Keats' 1818 poem, "Endymion", which begins with "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever."
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Gamiani Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess (French: "Gamiani, ou deux nuits d'excès" ) is a French erotic novel first published in 1833. Its authorship is anonymous, but it is believed to have been written by Alfred de Musset and the lesbian eponymous heroine a portrait of his lover, George Sand. It became a bestseller among nineteenth century erotic literature.
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline Louis-Ferdinand Céline (] ) was the pen name of Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (] ; 27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), a French novelist, pamphleteer and physician. He developed a new style of writing that modernized French literature. His most famous work is the 1932 novel, "Journey to the End of the Night".
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So Long a Letter So Long a Letter (French: "Une si longue lettre" ) is a semi-autobiographical epistolary novel originally written in French by the Senegalese writer Mariama Bâ. Its theme is the condition of women in Western African society.
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818 and is dedicated to "Ianthe". The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in foreign lands. In a wider sense, it is an expression of the melancholy and disillusionment felt by a generation weary of the wars of the post-Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. The title comes from the term "childe", a medieval title for a young man who was a candidate for knighthood.
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Banjaranama The Banjaranama (بنجارانامہ, बंजारानामा, "Chronicle of the Nomad") is a famous satirical Urdu poem, written by the eighteenth-century sub-continental poet Nazeer Akbarabadi. The poem's essential message is that pride in worldly success is foolish, because human circumstances can change in a flash, material wealth and splendor is always transient, and death is the only certainty for all men. The poem quickly captured the popular imagination, and achieved fame in the Indian subcontinent that has lasted for over two centuries. Critics have observed that, despite the deliberate simplicity of its language, the poem's idioms and imagery were dazzling in their span, and portrayed lives of wealth and power as ultimately subject to a nomad's whims (an allusion to death). The poem continues to be hailed as distilling ""the teachings of thousands of years into one summary form"."
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Winter (poem) Winter is the title of the most famous poem by Mehdi Akhavan Sales (1928–1990) the contemporary Iranian poet which was published in 1956. It was composed in Persian and has been translated into other languages.The poem has two layers: on the surface, the speaker is describing the chilly season, but more profoundly he is depicting the despair originating from political suppression in Iran.(exactly after the "1953 Iranian coup d'état")