H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life (French: H. P. Lovecraft : Contre le monde, contre la vie) is a work of literary criticism by French author Michel Houellebecq regarding the works of H. P. Lovecraft. The English-language edition for the American and UK market was translated by Dorna Khazeni, and features an introduction by American novelist Stephen King.
The book also includes two of Lovecraft's best known short stories: "The Call...
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H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life (French: H. P. Lovecraft : Contre le monde, contre la vie) is a work of literary criticism by French author Michel Houellebecq regarding the works of H. P. Lovecraft. The English-language edition for the American and UK market was translated by Dorna Khazeni, and features an introduction by American novelist Stephen King.
The book also includes two of Lovecraft's best known short stories: "The Call of Cthulhu" and "The Whisperer in Darkness."
One of Houellebecq's first published works (though a work of criticism, Houellebecq calls it his "first novel"), he reports having discovered Lovecraft as a teenager and being struck by how each story was, as he describes, "an open slice of howling fear". He reports a fascination with Lovecraft's anti-modernity, what he supposes is Lovecraft's profound hatred of life and philosophical denial of the real world; Houellebecq notes that his works include "not a single allusion to two of the realities...
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