num_pages: 160
description: Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny, and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time.Houellebecq's debut novel is painfully realistic portrayal of the vanishing freedom of a world governed by science and by the empty rituals of daily life.
language: English
title: Whatever
titlecomplete: Whatever
characters: Le héros, Raphaël Tisserand
genres: 20th Century, Philosophy, French Literature, Novels, Drama, Literature, Roman, Fiction, Contemporary, France
ratings_count: 17015
places: Paris
publisher: Serpent's Tail