Perversions of the Real
Perversions of the Real
This chapter analyses essay writing by Michel Houellebecq and Marc-Édouard Nabe, two right-leaning, heterosexual authors who inject their discourses about the political with imagery related to reorientation of sexualities. In Nabe's Au régal des vermines, the narrator's concepts of race and sodomy parallel one another. Like Nabe in Une Lueur d'espoir, Houellebecq is obsessed with homosexuals and homosexuality. This is evident in Les Particules élémentaires, in which Houellebecq fetishises a kind of too-human masculinity in what would be for him a utopian heteronormative world of the near future and is finally drawn into a speculative, specular, and voyeuristic homosocial order whereby his supposedly straight character is fascinated by male genitalia.
Keywords: Michel Houellebecq, Marc-Édouard Nabe, Au régal des vermines, race, sodomy, homosexuals, homosexuality, masculinity, Les Particules élémentaires, male genitalia
Liverpool Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
