TY - ECHAP A1 - Fustin, Ludivine TI - La mélancolie cynique du poète houellebecquien, ce « chien blessé » T3 - Twentieth and twenty-first century literature, n° 8 in Rencontres M1 - 68 DO - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-1424-4.p.0041 SN - 978-2-8124-1424-4 SP - 41 EP - 53 AB - This article places Houellebecq in the melancholic tradition of Western art, based on a classical definition of such a state of mind. In this way his melancholy can be seen as a falsely enlightened consciousness, cynical and disenchanted, as described by Peter Sloterdijk in his Critique of Cynical Reason. Thanks to a cynical twist, however, this melancholy gives Houellebecq access to a higher fundamental truth. PY - 2014 DA - 2014/01/08 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris LA - fre UR - https://shop.staging.classiques-garnier.net/l-unite-de-l-oeuvre-de-michel-houellebecq-la-melancolie-cynique-du-poete-houellebecquien-ce-chien-blesse-en.html Y2 - 2025/12/08 ER -