My Obligatory Houellebecq Post

The mad frog's latest bout of literary fisting has been leaked early to the French press, as revealed by The Independent. I'm so excited I almost want to go ahead and learn to speak French just so I can read the damn thing this year rather than wait til 2008 for the translation. While some of us are still reeling from the mad revelations brought to light in his hagiography of Lovecraft -- Against the World, Against Life -- this new novel seems to be a continuation of the trend of combining controversial cultural developments (in this case, cloning) with graphic sex and that curiously French brand of anomie best charicatured by the scene in I Heart Huckabee's where Jason Schwartzman snogs the female deconstructionist in the mud. For those of you not willing to learn the most Romantic of the Romance tongues, console yourselves with repeated readings of To Stay Alive: a Method, still one of the most astonishing essays on what it means to be a poet I've ever come across.

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