TY - EJOUR A1 - Viennot, Gilles TI - La Carte et le Territoire ou la mort comme délivrance T2 - Alkemie - Revue semestrielle de littérature et philosophie 2016 – 2, n° 18. La mort JO - Alkemie (ISSN 2286-136X), 18, 2016 – 2 DO - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-06636-1.p.0217 SN - 2286-136X SP - 217 EP - 231 AB - 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. PY - 2016 DA - 2016/12/14 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris KW - Decline of the West, devitalization, simulacrum, sadism, consumerism LA - fre UR - https://shop.staging.classiques-garnier.net/alkemie-2016-2-revue-semestrielle-de-litterature-et-philosophie-n-18-la-mort-la-carte-et-le-territoire-ou-la-mort-comme-delivrance-en.html Y2 - 2025/12/06 ER -