![]() ![]() He is 'taken up', feted and courted by critics and patrons, by those who know nothing but monetary value, and Houellebecq doesn't let any opportunity for a sharp gibe at galleries, art critics and agents go past. ![]() This novel takes him from obscurity as a reclusive student to fame as the doyenne of the contemporary art scene and in this journey we see exposed both the underlying values but in many ways the essential emptiness of the art world. ![]() Jed Martin, initially a photographer and later painter, has a singular take on the world and his craft. ![]() Houellebecq takes us through an erudite switchback ride of contemporary fiction which constantly surprises and delights. Summary: A satire on the world of modern art, a novel about coming to terms with one's mortality, a post-modern confusion of author and character, a classy who-dunnit, this book is at once all and perhaps none of those. ![]()
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