For a long time, people lived in a Catholic culture. Le jeune Michel est, dans un premier temps, confié à ses grands-parents maternels en Algérie. In the name of heaven, what the hell does it matter to them? The problem of the installation of Western barons in the Middle East no longer presents itself; even Donald Trump has dropped it. If we suddenly and radically change surroundings, leaving the edges of civilized Europe of the 1900s and transporting ourselves to the heart of Russian hysteria, we can add another item to the dossier: the famous scene from The Brothers Karamazov where, putting Christ and the Grand Inquisitor on stage, Dostoevsky violently attacks the Catholic Church, especially the pope and the Jesuits. It isn’t rooted in the origins of Christianity. Here we are in agreement—it’s much simpler, almost self-evident. Mh: Can the restoration of Catholicism to its former splendor repair our damaged civilization? Le 22 septembre 2018, Michel Houellebecq a épousé sa compagne Lysis lors d'une cérémonie à Paris. In reading the book, you sometimes get the impression that this renewal can only involve people with a past in alcoholism, drug addiction, prostitution, or homelessness—that it does not address itself to people who are integrated into society in a normal way, having spent their childhood in a reasonably loving family. The people danced, sang at the top of their lungs, and sometimes spoke in tongues. I never had the feeling I was witnessing a collective delirium, or that I was in the midst of a cult. Explication sur Extension du domaine de la lutte de Michel Houellebecq La population essaie de se distinguer du reste de la société et d'échapper à toute ressemblance mais les gens ne peuvent se défaire de la société de consommation, étant donné qu’un café, lieu de commerce, est considéré comme un refuge. Michel Houellebecq is the author of Serotonin. The sign of peace, reduced in Catholic Masses to a brief, irritated, and icy shake of the hand, gave way here to interminable warm hugs and kisses. I put myself in this category; this simple faith was the ­cement of a civilization. One used to see them because they wore soutanes and organized processions for the great religious feasts; today, they dress in civilian clothes and hide, as in the time of the catacombs. The Church should perhaps moderate its fascination with other religions. Michel Houellebecq naît à Saint-Pierre, sur l’île de la Réunion, fils de René Thomas, guide de haute montagne, et de Lucie Ceccaldi, docteur en médecine, anesthésiste diplômée « major » de la faculté de médecine d’Alger, tous deux militants communistes. Michel Houellebecq est considéré comme un des plus grands auteurs contemporains en langue française . Il se marie en effet une première fois en 1980 avec une femme dont on ignore le nom et qui lui donne un fils, Etienne, un an plus tard. On sait qu'elle est originaire de Shanghaï et qu'elle a rencontré l'auteur dans la cadre de ses études à la Sorbonne. Poète, essayiste, romancier et réalisateur, il est, depuis la fin des années 1990, l'un des auteurs contemporains de langue française les plus vendus et traduits à … Michel Houellebecq Il existe en France, beaucoup d’Américains l’ignorent sans doute, un mouvement pentecôtiste ; j’en ai pris conscience alors que j’habitais, à Paris, près de la porte de Montreuil – un quartier alors pauvre, avec (VIDEO), Elodie Frégé en couple avec Grégory Fitoussi : ils partagent des rares photos de vacances ensemble, au Costa Rica, Loana "détruite" : "Je ne dors plus, je ne mange pas, et ne bouge pas de la maison", Exclu. by Michel Houellebecq and Geoffroy Lejeune May 2019 ( English Version | V ersion française ) M ichel Houellebecq : Il existe en France, beaucoup d’Américains l’ignorent sans doute, un mouvement pentecôtiste ; j’en ai pris conscience alors que j’habitais, à Paris, près de la Porte de Montreuil - un quartier alors pauvre, avec beaucoup d’immigrés récents. Caravaggio, a scandalous, whimsical, and aggressive character, could thank his talent (and, it is true, certain well-placed relations) for his rehabilitation by the pope when he was condemned to death. This race toward modernity is an obvious failure, and the churches are considerably emptied as a result. Mh: We can spot in the history of thought a strange family of minds that admires the Roman Catholic Church for its power in the spiritual direction of human beings, and above all in the organization of human societies, yet do so without being Christians. Dans la plus grande discrétion, il a épousé en troisièmes noces Qianyum Lysis Li, une jeune femme d'origine chinoise. But even in the eyes of God, there exists, after this tragic gesture, the possibility of salvation. En septembre dernier, ce n'était pas ce livre qui faisait parler de l'écrivain à succès mais son mariage ! And I have never felt farther from God than on these occasions: I was eighteen years old, I was neither sickly nor depressed, and I ended up believing that, because I was unable to sob uncontrollably or pour out my feelings into a microphone in front of people I didn’t know, I was simply not made for the faith. How would the pope react? La violente charge de Michel Houellebecq contre François Hollande et Manuel Valls. At the time of Comte, and even later, many such existed, for a quite simple reason: Catholicism was, at least in Europe, in a situation of cultural hegemony, to speak like the Italian communists. Ses amis sont vis-à-vis de lui dans la protection ; il est vis-à-vis de ses amis dans la préoccupation. Mh: The precept “render unto Caesar” was clear; it does not seem to me that the Catholic Church has applied it with sufficient rigor. The Church can be inspired by Pentecostalism in the same way that pop music has been inspired by gospel and the blues. I frequented some charismatic meetings, notably with the Communauté de l’Emmanuel, and like you I saw people dancing, singing, speaking in tongues—in short, giving themselves over to all the effusions that we thought were reserved to Americans alone. © Prisma Média - Partenaire Plurimedia - Tous droits réservés. Pas de se suicider, enfin pas tout de suite car il ny aurait pas de roman, mais de disparaître, de sévaporer. Beauty takes on a character there that Kant will later call sublime (beauty accompanied by the sensation of danger, such as a great storm at sea, or a thunderstorm high in the mountains). These people are crying out with an anger that has been growing for a long time, and they have been ­supported by a majority of the population. Son père, guide de haute montagne, et sa mère, médecin anesthésiste, se désintéressent très vite de son existence. France Télévisions va adapter en série "La jeune fille et la nuit" de Guillaume Musso et "Les particules élémentaires" de Michel Houellebecq. Avec un tirage exceptionnel de 320 000 exemplaires, le septième roman de l’écrivain français dont l’histoire plonge dans la France rurale s’annonce déjà comme un best-seller. Elle le recueille enfant dans sa maison de Dicy (Yonne Režie filmu s názvem La Possibilité d'une île se ujal sám autor. Il sort cependant fêter le prix Médicis remis à Benoît Duteurtre p… Then recently, the answer came to me: Zemmour is precisely Naphta from The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. An atheist can have lost his faith for respectable reasons, and it is possible to bring him back to the faith, as many have seen; but Protestantism, he writes, “is only a negation.”. Sérotonine, le nouveau livre de Michel Houellebecq sorti ce vendredi 4 janvier ne devrait pas déroger à la règle. Il y a donc ici Ce rire décalé ne pouvait séduire qu’un autre grand nom de la littérature, beaucoup plus proche de nous, Michel Houellebecq à qui, bien souvent, Huysmans fait penser. As usual, St. Paul is irreproachable—“it is better to marry than to burn”—and sometimes even sublime—“the two will become one flesh.” Things clearly go wrong with St. ­Augustine, but that remains without consequence for many centuries. Une chose est sûre, son oeuvre ne laisse personne indifférent et les critiques à son encontre sont nombreuses, jusque sur LVSL . ⋙ C'est extra : Gérard Depardieu se met au régime avec Michel Houellebecq ! The changes, notably, concerned liturgy: Latin was abandoned, ornamentation was simplified, and the priest turned toward the congregation. Romancier, essayiste, poète, considéré par de nombreux critiques comme l’écrivain français le plus marquant de notre époque, il est lu dans le monde entier depuis Extension du domaine de la lutte (1994). On l’a compris, c’est du livre de Lucie Ceccaldi, mère de Michel Houellebecq, 83 ans et toutes ses dents – bien acérées –, que l’on veut parler ici. The memories I have of this are strange—I almost doubt having lived these moments. Basically, he could see himself replacing the pope in Rome and taking over the entire Catholic organization. Wags remarked that the cardinals arrived there by boat and left by plane: The institution had just entered modernity. Michel Thomas, alias Michel Houellebecq (il a pris pour pseudo le nom de jeune fille de sa grand-mère maternelle), est le fils d’un guide de haute montagne et d'une anesthésiste. Perhaps the Church would recover a bit of its splendor if it stopped wanting to be cool and taught once again the fear of God, without which there is no love. Une demi-soeur naît quatre ans après lui. I am talking about the moment when Carrère comes face-to-face with dancing Élodie, the girl with Down syndrome, and catches a glimpse of the Kingdom. Très tôt séduit par l’idée de pouvoir cadrer le monde dans un viseur, Michel Houellebecq s’est mis jeune à la photographie. In lieu of exercising a political influence, the Church could be offering a spiritual plan to those who are fighting against a loss of fundamental meaning. Photo by … The evil thus comes from long ago. Only the dynamic parishes of the city centers escape this liturgical impoverishment, but even there on a Sunday one can hear a guitarist trying his hand at arpeggios, and recall this cruel reality: He’s no Mark Knopfler. And the Church seems to apologize for her existence. So much for the business angle, but when we see the ugliness of modern churches, these unhappy cubes of faded cement, sometimes so hideous, which hardly ever tower above the horizon traced by the surrounding houses, one understands above all that what differentiates us from the Christian builders is “functional thinking,” instead of dedicating the construction to God. If you want this website to work, you must enable javascript. For de Maistre, it is even worse to be a Protestant than to be an atheist. Le jeune MH fait cela à merveille, il sait faire battre le cœur de son lecteur au rythme lent du tireur couché ou du plongeur fou. We are still at this point, and I must admit to a real embarrassment when I hear various prelates strongly opposing the use of condoms, AIDS or no. Having returned to earth, Christ is immediately imprisoned by the ­ecclesiastical authorities. In general, nostalgia for the time of controversies among great thinkers over the subject of faith seems anachronistic to me. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. The phenomena are probably linked: The Church tried to conform itself to the world at a moment when the world was becoming uglier. Gl: If you choose to go by architecture, there is indeed a striking aspect: In the time of the cathedrals, monumental places of worship were erected and their construction lasted longer than a man’s lifetime. This role-reversal led to suicide. Il est révélé par les romans Extension du domaine de la lutte et, surtout, Les Particules élémentaires, qui le fait connaître d'un large public. Poète , essayiste , romancier et réalisateur , il est, depuis la fin des années 1990 , l'un des auteurs contemporains de … Those who study his case in order to understand our era will have much difficulty drawing correct conclusions: He incarnates a very powerful intellectual current in France, which we could classify as reactionary, but he finds himself almost completely alone in defending these ideas, and he is attacked in a ferocious manner. The Church has her share of responsibility, even if she was bitterly opposed, by submitting too easily. In France, the law of 1905 was applied too well: In separating the Church and the State, the political power probably did not think that it would succeed, in less than a century, in carrying out this gigantic erasure. Très attaché à cette grand-mère communiste, il choisira plus tard son nom d… In a Christian continent, where Catholicism was often the state religion and at the same time the common cultural base, it was possible for the great minds, whether believers or not, to influence the Church. Michel Houellebecq est un écrivain français incisif et dont les propos offensants – dans ses romans ou lors de ses apparitions en public – sont nombreux; cependant, il s’agit plusieurs fois de discours métaphoriques qui relèvent du second degré et qui appellent à un autre niveau d’interprétation. En septembre 2016, ils se rendent à la remise du prix Frank Schirrmacher à Berlin. In the past, she governed souls; today, her political influence is negligible, and her role in society is reduced to almost nothing. These errors made possible the civilizational catastrophes that were the Greco-Latin Renaissance and, above all, Protestantism—which, through their related action, necessarily led to the Enlightenment, and thus to the crumbling of the whole thing. Men are sinners, and God forgives them, which is something that non-believers have ceased to perceive. Michel Houellebecq, « l'enfant terrible » des lettres françaises, est de retour sur les étals des libraires avec un nouveau roman, Sérotonine, ouvrage sombre et … a été sélectionné. The answer is “Yes.”. Le roman Plateforme a été éliminé dès la deuxième sélection du Goncourt en 2001. Michel Houellebecq au salon du livre de Francfort, le 11 octobre 2017 | Boris Roessler / DPA / AFP Temps de lecture: 10 min «Il se peut, sympathique ami … Sixty years later, the synthesizers are still there, and the girls too, but they have grown old, and their voices quaver—even the priests can no longer put up with them. Michel Houellebecq naît le 26 février 1958 à La Réunion. Michel Thomas, alias Michel Houellebecq (il a pris pour pseudo le nom de jeune fille de sa grand-mère maternelle), est le fils d’un guide de haute montagne et d'une anesthésiste. It also ought to abandon this mania for organizing councils, which are, above all, the opportunity for triggering schisms. Michel Houellebecq (prononcer [wɛlˈbɛk]), né le 26 février 1956 à Saint-Pierre (La Réunion), est un écrivain, poète et essayiste français. Though royal marriages are today little more than odd ceremonies, the Catholic Church has not given up on meddling in the government of states (intervening, for example, in their migratory policies), and it must be said that this ends up irritating everyone. Latin was thus supposed to mark a difference between everyday language and the language with which we address the Creator. «Je ne crois pas une demi-seconde aux déclarations du genre rien ne sera plus jamais comme avant. Il a reçu de nombreux prix pour ses livres dont notamment le prix Tristan (1992) et le prix de Flore (1996) pour ses deux recueils de poèmes. It ought to abandon encyclicals as well, and put a brake on its doctrinal inventiveness. Gl: The Catholic Church is indeed thought of as moralizing and puritan; in other words, she is seen as a pain. Moreover, it’s important not to forget a dose of madness—Dostoevsky offers the Russian version: “If it is necessary to choose between Christ and the truth, I choose Christ.” For the French version, we have Blaise Pascal. . L'occasion de se demander qui est sa femme, Qianyum Lysis, qui l'a épousée en septembre dernier. Michel Thomas (ur. Geoffroy Lejeune is editor of Valeurs actuelles. Michel Houellebecq (wɛlˈbɛk), né Michel Thomas à la Réunion, le 26 février 1956 (acte de naissance), ou en 1958 [1] (selon lui), est un écrivain français. According to this separation, the State is certainly secular, but at no time was it stated that society must be atheist. Ils se séparent rapidement. Le troisième en vérité. Michel Houellebecq, il cinismo e l’amore per gli animali Ritratto dell’autore di Serotonina che amò il suo cane come pochi altri esseri. C'est entouré de ses proches que Michel Houellebecq a reçu la Légion d'honneur ce jeudi 18 avril 2019. Simplifions lhistoire: Florent-Claude Labrouste est un agronome dans la quarantaine qui décide de se soustraire à la vie sociale. Only one of them has decided it would be a good idea to go to a meeting of the gilets jaunes. And at the end of the celebration, we would share bountiful meals. Michel Houellebecq a reçu le prix Goncourt pour son roman La Carte et le territoire, en 2010. In politics, she would perhaps win by ceasing to throw moral discredit on certain governments (the pope’s criticism of the management of migrants by the Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini is a good example). Ses parents divorcent quand il est enfant et il est élevé par ses grands-parents. I have to admit that a form of joy reigns over these assemblies that is sometimes a bit worrisome, because certain members seem possessed (their behavior during so-called “evenings of healing” leads one to believe that this mystery can only be experienced if one is in bad shape). The history of the last century could be summed up thus: a massive de-Christianization of almost the entire West, principally in Europe, where in a few decades what had been built over the course of fifteen centuries was dismantled. Un jeune homme arrête son vélo, il est fan de Michel Houellebecq. One can live in France without seeing a priest during one’s entire life. I love very much the idea of the “collier’s faith” described by Honoré de Balzac: “lov[ing] the Holy Virgin as he might have loved his wife,” a filial piety, an attachment devoid of theological or philosophical reflection, a fidelity to a history and to roots more than to a mystical revelation. It was better before, when the supernatural was seen everywhere, even in the cathedral spires pointing toward heaven. A scene of the same sort can be found in the magnificent final pages of Emmanuel Carrère’s book The Kingdom, located this time in Jean Vanier’s L’Arche community. Jelena Weber - Annabelle jeune - Les particules élémentaires - Elementarteilchen - Oskar Roehler - d'après le roman Les Particules élémentaires de Michel Houellebecq Category People & Blogs To describe Michel Houellebecq, one of France’s most successful living writers, as provocative would be an understatement.A year after the September 11, 2001, attacks on America, he was charged with In his inimitable way, Comte describes the label “Protestant” as characteristic. The great principle of laicity in the French style is fundamentally compatible with the one set forth by Jesus: There is interior faith (and freedom is preserved from this point of view), and there is the public square, where the member of a religious order may not exert an influence. Weakened by this struggle, the Anglican clergy showed itself incapable of curbing the development of Puritanism. La violente charge de Michel Houellebecq contre François Hollande et Manuel Valls. Mh: Can the Catholic Church regain her former splendor? Perhaps the Church would regain some credibility if she stopped conceiving of herself as an NGO that is vaguely charitable but does not take responsibility for the source of its generosity: Christ. Today, the Church in Europe has shrunk back into certain hard cores, sociologically very homogeneous—a social class—cut off from the majority of souls. Things truly degenerate only in the modern era, as the Church succumbs to a kind of puritanism. Leurs apparitions publiques sont rares. Translated from the French by Stephen E. Lewis. [m i ˈ ʃ ɛ l w ɛ l ˈ b ɛ k]), właśc. Translated from the French by Stephen E. Lewis. When one enters the church of San Luigi dei Francesi, one sees in Caravaggio’s three paintings devoted to the life of St. Matthew the magnificent fruits of this conniving between clergy and artists. Everything was linked, homogeneous. Especially because this is perfectly possible. Michel Houellebecq is the ageing enfant terrible of French literature. Man is a being of reason: That’s true, from time to time.