In the Presence of Schopenhauer

by Michel Houellebecq

Book Overview

The work of Michel Houellebecq - one of the most widely read and controversial novelists of our time - is marked by the thought of Schopenhauer. When Houellebecq came across a copy of Schopenhauer's Aphorisms in a library in his mid-twenties, he was bowled over by it and he hunted down a copy of his major philosophical work, The World as Will and Representation. Houellebecq found in Schopenhauer - the radical pessimist, the chronicler of human suffering,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509543252
• ISBN13: 9781509543250
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.9" x 7.3"