Michel Houellebecq： The Era of Emptiness  

作　　者：Ruth Amar 

机构地区：[1]University ofHaifa, Haifa, Israel

出　　处：《Journalism and Mass Communication》2016年第3期158-165,共8页新闻与大众传媒（英文版）

摘　　要：Michel Houellebecq is perhaps the most successful, the most famous and controversial of all current novelists writing in French. He has become a global publishing phenomenon： His books have been translated worldwide, film adaptations of his novels have been produced, and the author is the subject of a million-euro publishing deals and successive media scandals in France. The novels depict surprising forms of imaginary resources, a radiating end of the world, a post-nuclear anxiety, and depressive characters. Houellebecq shocks us leaving us in a world where the feelings of love, tenderness and goodwill have disappeared. The purpose of Houellebecq＇s novels is to alert about the real problems of the human society in the twenty-first century. Indeed, in the books we can easily recognize the essential features of contemporary society and the fact that the individual assumes a dehumanization process in which one has to cope with his solitude in a world of emptiness. This socio-cultural dimension is indeed the background of Houellebecq＇s novels, novels in which the protagonists seem to be wedged in a mechanism from which it is difficult to escape： reification and dehumanization on the one hand, ＂robotization＂ of love on the other. This article focuses on the analysis of the texts revealing the poignant characteristics of＂L＇Ere du vide＂ （＂The Era of Emptiness＂） as described by Gilles Lipovetsky： Loneliness, the lack of love and its replacement by sexual relations.

关 键 词：REIFICATION DEHUMANIZATION ＂robotization＂ ＂L＇Ere du vide＂ LONELINESS lack of love sexual relations 

分 类 号：TP391[自动化与计算机技术—计算机应用技术] I207.42[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]