Replika 2020

“Replika 2020” — a collection of articles and interviews by Michel Houellebecq over three decades. The author of global bestsellers “Atomised,” “Platform,” “Submission,” “Serotonin” speaks here in the first person. In these deep, sharp, and sometimes scathing texts, he assesses current events, articulates his conclusions and predictions for the future. The book includes his worldview and political essays, notes on cinema and literature, discussions about his own work, responses to critics, as well as reflections on writers and philosophers, on religion, on feminism and self-isolation, on jazz and Donald Trump, on euthanasia and tourism. In France, “Replika” by Houellebecq was published separately three times: in 1998, 2011, and 2020, each time supplemented with new media appearances by the writer. Articles from the first two were published in Russian in collections “The World as a Supermarket” 2003 and “Humanity, Stage 2” 2011. This edition includes in full all three collections, representing the views on the modern world of one of the most widely read French authors.