OF FRENCH LITERATURE AND GWEN STEFANII know, it's a bad headline, but it made me laugh. Michel Houellebecq, the enigmatic French author, on the other hand more often makes me grimace and sort of contort my brain into all sorts of rediculous pretzels. I am in the process of processing "The Possibility of an Island" his most recent novel translated from the French and published by Knopf. Houellebecq is the kind of man you want to keep his hands on the table, and out of his pockets, if you know what I mean. He is very clever, and the structure of the book is quite ingenious. The story of the … [Read more...]