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Submission: A Novel Hardcover – October 20, 2015

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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First American Edition edition (October 20, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0374271577
  • ISBN-13: 978-0374271572
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4.0 out of 5 starsA sociologist's dream of a novel
By Carolyn Kost on December 16, 2015
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This novel is far more a portrait of contemporary society than any inflammatory depiction of Islam. Houellebecq's protagonist, Francois, is the modern human who goes through life devoid of meaning, passion, any cherished human connection or deeply held beliefs. Sex and gourmandise fail to provide even momentary joy. His academic pursuits at least provide diversion and prestige, but they are not particularly fulfilling. This regime, that regime; it's hard to see how it could make any substantive difference to Francois.

This is the masterful means by which we come to observe several sociological truths. First, nature abhors a vacuum; ergo those who do believe in something will trump the apathetic, the nihilist, and the anomic. Second, the family is a core unit of society; ergo the fraying of ties accompanied by the increased atomization of the individual poses a threat to the societal tapestry that must be addressed. Religions and other ideologies tend to fill the interstices, the cracks that form, rather effectively in a society. The filler in the 2022 France of Submission is a moderate Islam, a religion that already had traction due to Islamic immigration and a high birth rate.

Rest assured that no terrorism is involved; that would be "amateurish" and repugnant. The multiple parties vying for power in France fracture the political system enough to allow the Islamic party to assume power with just 22% of the vote. Those who believe the events described to be totally implausible must not know history. Having lived in places where regime change dramatically transformed societies virtually overnight, I disagree vehemently.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsAs a parent of an only child (born pre-2008 Great Recession), I know many others daunted by the ...
By Wise Dad on November 28, 2015
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Submission is not a book for everyone; it will appeal mostly to middle-age male intellectuals. Houellebecq's thesis is the liberal individualism of the West has "attacked" the family and thus the birthrate, which has signed it's own death warrant. As a parent of an only child (born pre-2008 Great Recession), I know many others daunted by the skyrocketing costs of child-care, health-care, and college tuition. This financial burden of parenthood, accompanied by a general hedonism, unmitigated by a much weaker Christianity that accepts nearly anything, has turned many more than just myself away from a larger family. Islam, a religion unaltered by modern Western liberal ideas, continuing to focus on the family and ensuing high birthrates, continues to grow in Europe far in excess of the native populations. In time these numbers will develop political clout...which Houellebecq foresees aligning with leftist parties against conservative mainstream ones, the resulting coalition becoming a majority. Ladies, prepare your veils.
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4.0 out of 5 starsHow Islam gains control in 2022
By Ralph Blumenau on September 18, 2015
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WARNING: Some spoiler material in this review as far as the plot is concerned - but the heart of the matter lies in the arguments involved.

The story takes its time to start on its main subject, the rise to power of Islam in France in the presidential elections of 2022. It begins with François, the narrator, in his early forties, a randy Professor of Literature at the Sorbonne and a serial bedder of his female students. He describes his sexual activities with them in explicit detail. But he also talks about his study of the admired but decadent Huysmans, and about other French writers; about his worry about his sexual decline; about his lack of interest in his teaching; and about his lack of interest in political activity: “I was about as political as a bath towel”. But he has noted that the worn-out alternation between Center-Right and Center-Left governments in France was quite disconnected from what was happening in France: the growth of the vigorous Front National and of the vigorous Muslim Brotherhood. The media no longer thought, as the had done in earlier days, that the race riots which broke out every now and then in the suburbs were particularly significant.

And now, in the first round of the Presidential election the Center-Right and the Center-Left candidates were eliminated, so the second round would be between the Front National and the Muslim Brotherhood. Between the first and the second round, many people are beginning to panic, fearful of either result or indeed of civil war. François’ Jewish girl friend leaves for Israel.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsIn-depth review
By John L Murphy TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on October 20, 2015
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While the release of this book in its original French will be inevitably tied to the article about its author, Michel Houellebecq, featured in Charlie Hebdo the week of the Parisian murders of its staff and other innocents last January, the novel itself merits attention.

Readers of Houellebecq's previous fiction will recognize familiar elements. The discontent of his early middle-aged, educated, ornery French narrators in Whatever and The Elementary Particles repeats. The unease in Platform that lust brings to those with sagging bodies and ebbing desire persists. The longing for an escape from a declining European culture returns after The Possibility of an Island with its utopian fantasy, and aesthetic debates dramatized in The Map and the Territory..

After this newest novel's French publication, critics sought to blame, once again, its satirical author. Predictably, Soumission entered the bestseller charts in first place. Some on the left regarded its themes as needlessly provocative. Many called them racist, appealing to baser instincts among French nationalists. Taken by English-language audiences at more of a distance, these issues may recede.

If treated as another in a series of Houellebecq's jabs at coddled liberal sensibilities, Submission loses some sting. Houellebecq proves rather, once again, how he delights in the novel of ideas. He places his narrators within unbearable situations. We then watch them try to wriggle free. Within a French situation where the thought-police seek to patrol the sensibilities of all who reject secular platitudes as much as they may religious ones, the topics Submission investigates enrich its suggestive title.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsAmazing insights. Very plausible plot outcome

Amazing insights. Very plausible plot outcome, sadly enough.

Published 5 days ago by Michael P. Colucci
4.0 out of 5 starsa good read, creating a substantive reflection upon completion

Different from what I expected as I am new to this author, as this purchase was based of a recommendation. Basically I wasn't expecting literotica. Read more

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4.0 out of 5 starsRefreshingly irreverent

Exquisite satire about the academy, religion, politics and literature. Too timely and true to life not to be thoroughly frightening as well.

Published 14 days ago by Amy Kepple Strawser
3.0 out of 5 starsdifficult and dull read. Houellbecq is a maverick French writer so ...

This book is a long, difficult and dull read. Houellbecq is a maverick French writer so it helps a lot if you know something, anything about French intellectual and philosophical... Read more

Published 16 days ago by Frances Verrinder
4.0 out of 5 starsExcellent book. Tougher read then I was expecting

Excellent book. Tougher read then I was expecting

Published 21 days ago by debra sheridan
4.0 out of 5 starsA thought-provoking character study

Interesting on several levels; some work better than others. Its best aspect is the study of the central character, which is thought-provoking (and depressing). Read more

Published 24 days ago by Ed Telfeyan
4.0 out of 5 starsI like Houellebecq's informative type of writing

I like Houellebecq's informative type of writing. He is a little too heavy on the graphic sexual details but other than that he is crisp and and insightful about society and... Read more

Published 24 days ago by Bill ISTT
3.0 out of 5 starsExistential lonliness.

I had never read any of Michel Houellebecq’s novels before I recently read, “Submission”. I was aware of Houellebecq’s reputation as a significant French author, although I had no... Read more

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