The narcissistic fall of France. Is the country really on the brink of civil war?. BY MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ

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[–]proc0 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Well the article is badly written, but I guess it's been translated or something. I'll have to look it up.

Ok, from a wiki quote supposedly from him, " I am part of the France which votes for Macron, because I am too rich to vote for Le Pen or Mélenchon"... I'm guessing this makes him one of the elites, and we know what happened to them during the French revolution.

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Houellebecq writes from the perspective of the little guy, since he was a nobody for ages until he had a hit novel about ten years ago. I guess you just don't like him for whatever reason, and think he's the enemy. He is anything but.