Whatever
Subtitle: a novel
By: Michel Houellebecq ; translated by Paul Hammond.
Contributors: Hammond, Paul, 1947 July 19-
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
Work titles: Extension du domaine de la lutte.
Description: "Ever found yourself all at sea at work? Suffered from information overload?" "If you have, Houellebecq's grim, funny and clever tongue-in-cheek exploration of corporate jargon, psychobabble and the ineffectual use of long words is for you." "Just thirty, with a well-paid job and no love-life, our narrator smokes 4 packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories - cows and all - in his spare time. He's tolerably content in his boredom - until he's packed off with the unimaginably ugly Raphael Tisserand to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Originally published in French as Extension du domaine de la lutte in 1994 by Editions Maurice Nadeau.