'Submission', by Michel Houellebecq - A Review

A review of Michel Houellebecq's mordant, dark and brilliant novel on the decadence and metaphysical boredom sweeping through France, which gets pushed aside when an Islamic political party comes to power. There is so much to say on this novel and a further, extended review and analysis will be coming in the future. It covers so much - the nature of love, boredom, narcissism, alienation, the relations between man and woman and between man and God, the aridity and self-satisfied emptiness of contemporary liberal cultural, careerism, academic cowardice and what happens when a society simply loses the will to preserve itself and is swept aside. This should be enough to give you a taste of what this important work of art is all about, though. BOOKS AND REFERENCES: 1. 'Submission,' by Michel Houellebecq: http://amzn.to/2CKu0Ik 2. 'Against Nature,' by Joris-Karl Huysmans: http://amzn.to/2CKuT3C 3. 'The Damned,' by Joris-Karl Huysmans: http://amzn.to/2DelcLY 4. 'Temporal and Eternal,' by Charles Peguy: http://amzn.to/2DeP8rt 5. 'The Portal of the Mystery of Hope,' by Charles Peguy: http://amzn.to/2CN2F8v 6. "Charles Peguy," by Roger Kimball (article on Peguy): http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.... 7. 'The Woman Who Was Poor,' by Leon Bloy: http://amzn.to/2CLsSEz 8. 'Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis,' by Bat Ye'or: http://amzn.to/2DdlSRL 9. 'Europe, Globalization and the Coming of the Universal Caliphate,' by Bat Ye'or: http://amzn.to/2meThn4 10. 'The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism', by Pascal Bruckner: http://amzn.to/2De6EMt 11. 'The Crisis of the Modern World,' by Rene Guenon: http://amzn.to/2qHVblw 12. 'The Gay Science,' by Friedrich Nietzsche: http://amzn.to/2CZlTuM 13. 'The Benedict Option,' by Rod Dreher: http://amzn.to/2mcH3eB 14. 'The Triumph of Faith,' by Rodney Stark: http://amzn.to/2mfga9M