A review by vitalbeachyeah
The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq

4.0

+ You have to appreciate a book in which the author inserts himself as a central character, then has himself gruesomely murdered half-way through, before describing in loving detail his own funeral. Houellebecq has a lot of fun with the absurdities arising from this.

- Self-consciously an Important Book About Modern Society, with the problems inherent to that sort of novel; we're asked to feel the existential angst of the rich white male protagonist and listen attentively at the feet of the author whilst he reveals to us, in his wisdom, the isolated nature of the modern individual and the future of the French economy.