La Carte et le Territoire ou la mort comme délivrance

According to Michel Houellebecq, our world has fallen into nonsense. The all-out competition, consumerism (placing manufactured objects at the heart of our values), and narcissism have degraded the human existence and destroyed our soul. In the morbid configuration of The Map and the Territory, absurdity, and a death wish, Houellebecq accredits more than ever the thesis of Oswald Spengler on the inevitable Decline of the West. Houellebecq’s novels provide a dynamic analysis of the devitalization.