Whatever (Serpent's Tail Classics) - Softcover

Funny, terrifying and nauseating (Independent)

The balance between philosophy and narrative detail is perfectly judged; the book slips down easily like a bad oyster. As is the nature of such things, it is grimly comic (Nicholas Lezard Guardian)

Le grand fromage du jour (The Face)

It could well turn out to be a cult here too ... astonishing (Time Out)

Snappy, bite-sized, and often very funny. Is it European exhaustion? Is it the soul of man under late capitalism? Millenial gloom? Post-Christian despair? Is it the death of love? Whatever. But Houellebecq describes it perfectly (Literary Review)

This boy needs serious therapy. He may be beyond help (Washington Post)

The mischief-making enfant terrible of new-wave French fiction (Independent)

Houellebecq captures precisely the cynical disillusionment of disaffected youth (Booklist)