Submission (novel)
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Submission is a novel by French writer Michel Houellebecq. The French edition of the book was published on 7 January 2015 by Flammarion, with German and Italian translations also published in January.
First edition cover
Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans was a French novelist and art critic who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans. He is most famous for the novel À rebours. He supported himself by way of a 30-year
Submission (novel)
…others, fleetingly appear as characters in the book. The novel's narrator is François, a middle-aged literature professor at Paris 3 and specialist in Huysmans. In 2022 François feels he is at the end of his sentimental and sexual life – composed largely of year-long liaisons with his students. It has been…
Huysmans, c. 1904
Joris Karl Huysmans Signature
Portray of Huysmans by Louis Félix Beschere (1886)
Huysmans's grave