The Possibility of an Island,
by Michel Houellebecq
The Possibility of an Island, by enfant terrible of
contemporary French literature, Michel Houellebecq, revisits themes of
religious cults, love, lust and genetic engineering with the same
challenging insights as his previous books. Set in both the present and
future, the narrative is a recounting of present and subsequent lives of
Daniels. The original Daniel, a comedian who achieves fame and fortune
through his misanthropic exploitation of social ills, falls in with a cult
that promises immortality through cloning. Human suffering is eventually
eradicated resulting in an angst free existence not worth living and
nostalgia for the heartache experienced by Daniel 1.
-Michele
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