Soumission ou capitulation? Une France antiutopique dans le roman Soumission et dans le film L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq
Submission or Surrender? A Dystopian France in the Novel Submission and in the film The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses the novel Submission by Michel Houellebecq (2015) and the movie The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq by Guillaume Nicloux (2014). It highlights the idea of an anti-utopian France and the auto-immune crisis that characterizes the Western civilization at the beginning of the 21st century. The fragility of a democratic system that, according to Houellebecq, will end up in “insurrection” and “civil war” leads to the nostalgic temptation of the happiness of surrender.

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