Forcer le trait. Caricature et la construction du personnage chez Michel Houellebecq: aperçu de la réception critique

Abstract

One the most important features of Michel Houellebecq’s novelistic writing is extravagancy and exaggeration. We will try to show how this writer builds his characters through cliché and epiphrastic reflection. We would like to highlight in this article the way this author, by fictional means, considers some social categories and actors by emphasizing with ruthless prejudice some of their features as though they were somehow enemies to be defeated. Michel Houellebecq, Literature, Provocation, Extravagancy, Epiphrasis

Keywords

• Michel Houellebecq
• Littérature
• Provocation
• Extravagance
• Épiphrase