Y todas las teorías de la libertad, desde Gide a Sartre, no son sino inmoralidades concebidas por solteros irresponsables.
Michel HouellebecqAs I finished my rice, I sketched out the plot of a pornographic adventure film called The Massage Room. Sirien, a young girl from northern Thailand, falls hopelessly in love with Bob, an American student who winds up in the massage parlor by accident, dragged there by his buddies after a fatefully boozy evening. Bob doesn't touch her, he's happy just to look at her with his lovely, pale-blue eyes and tell her about his hometown - in North Carolina, or somewhere like that. They see each other several more times, whenever Sirien isn't working, but, sadly, Bob must leave to finish his senior year at Yale. Ellipsis. Sirien waits expectantly while continuing to satisfy the needs of her numerous clients. Though pure at heart, she fervently jerks off and sucks paunchy, mustached Frenchmen (supporting role for Gerard Jugnot), corpulent, bald Germans (supporting role for some German actor). Finally, Bob returns and tries to free her from her hell - but the Chinese mafia doesn't see things in quite the same light. Bob persuades the American ambassador and the president of some humanitarian organization opposed to the exploitation of young girls to intervene (supporting role for Jane Fonda). What with the Chinese mafia (hint at the Triads) and the collusion of Thai generals (political angle, appeal to democratic values), there would be a lot of fight scenes and chase sequences through the streets of Bangkok. At the end of the day, Bob carries her off. But in the penultimate scene, Sirien gives, for the first time, an honest account of the extent of her sexual experience. All the cocks she has sucked as a humble massage parlor employee, she has sucked in the anticipation, in the hope of sucking Bob's cock, into which all the others were subsumed - well, I'd have to work on the dialogue. Cross fade between the two rivers (the Chao Phraya, the Delaware). Closing credits. For the European market, I already had line in mind, along the lines of "If you liked The Music Room, you'll love The Massage Room.
Michel HouellebecqTags: erotica sarcastic-humor
Está lección autobiográfica no lo es en realidad: sea como sea, no tengo otra salida. Sino escribo lo que he visto sufriría igual; y quizás un poco más. Un poco solamente, insisto en esto. La escritura no alivia apenas. Describe, delimita. Introduce una sombra de coherencia,una idea de realismo. Uno sigue chapoteando en una niebla sangrienta, pero hay algunos puntos de referencia. El caos se queda a unos pocos metros. Pobre éxito, en realidad.
Michel HouellebecqTags: ampliación-del-campo-de-batalla
Las relaciones humanas se vuelven progresivamente imposibles, lo cual reduce otro tanto la cantidad de anécdotas de las que se compone una vida. Y poco a poco aparece el rostro de la muerte, en todo su esplendor.
Michel HouellebecqTags: ampliación-del-campo-de-batalla
Аннабель присутствовала сначала при отправке машины «скорой помощи», потом при возвращении «рено». Около часу ночи она встала и оделась; родители уже спали; она пешком дошла до ограды дома Мишеля. В окнах горел свет. Вероятно, все были в гостиной, но шторы мешали разглядеть хоть что нибудь. И тут зарядил мелкий дождик. Прошло минут десять. Аннабель знала, что может позвонить в дверь и увидеться с Мишелем. Точно так же она могла не предпринимать ничего. Она не слишком понимала, что переживает практический урок свободы выбора. В любом случае этот опыт был чрезвычайно жесток, и ей после тех десяти минут никогда не суждено будет стать вполне такой, как прежде. Годы спустя Мишелю предстоит обосновать краткую теорию человеческой свободы на базе аналогии с поведением сверхтекучего гелия. На атомном уровне происходящий в головном мозге обмен электронами между нейронами и синапсами также подчиняется правилу неопределенности, однако можно полагать, что образ действий человека детерминирован – как в своей основе, так и в деталях – столь же жестко, как поведение любой другой естественной системы. Однако в некоторых, и притом крайне редких, обстоятельствах происходит то, что христиане именуют «чудом милосердия»: появляется волна новой когерентности и распространяется в мозгу, возникает – на время либо окончательно – новый тип поведения, регулируемый принципиально иной системой источников гармонических колебаний; тогда мы наблюдаем то, что принято называть «актом свободной воли».
Michel HouellebecqDe la un anumit nivel în sus, un angajat nu are obligații doar față de firmă, ci și față de el însuși, trebuie să aibă grijă de cariera lui și s-o iubească, așa cum face Hristos cu Biserica și soția cu soțul ei, sau, cel puțin, trebuie să acorde problemelor ridicate de carieră acel minim de atenție în lipsa căruia va demonstra superiorilor săi consternați că nu va fi nicicând demn să-și depășească poziția de subaltern.
Michel HouellebecqTags: cariera regulile-jocului
Poți munci ca un schimnic ani la rând, ba la drept vorbind acesta este singurul mod în care se cuvine să muncești; vine însă o clipă când simți nevoia să arăți lumii ce-ai muncit, nu atât pentru a-ți evalua judecata, cât pentru a căpăta siguranța în legătură cu existența acestei munci, ba chiar în legătură cu propria existență; înlăuntrul unei specii sociale, individualitatea nu mai reprezintă decât o ficțiune pasageră.
Michel HouellebecqTags: existența individualitatea munca
A fi artist, în ochii lui însemna înainte de toate să fii supus. Supus unor mesaje misterioase, imprevizibile, care, în lipsa de ceva mai bun și în absența oricărei credințe religioase, se cuveneau calificate drept intuiții; niște mesaje poruncitoare, care se afirmau într-o manieră imperioasă, categorică, fără a-ți lăsa nici cea mai mică posibilitate de a te sustrage - sau doar cu riscul de a-ți pierde orice noțiune de integritate și de respect față de tine însuți.
Michel HouellebecqYou too, you took an interest in the world. That was long ago. I want you to cast your mind back to then. The domain of the rules was no longer enough for you; you were unable to love any longer in the domain of the rules; so you had to enter into the domain of the struggle. I ask you to go back to that precise moment. It was long ago, no? Cast your mind back: the water was cold.
You are far from the edge, now. Oh yes! How far from the edge you are! You long believed in the existence of another shore; such is no longer the case. You go on swimming, though, and every movement you make brings you closer to drowning. You are suffocating, your lungs are on fire. The water seems colder and colder to you, more and more galling. You aren't that young anymore. Now you are going to die. Don't worry. I am here. I won't let you sink. Go on with your reading.
Tags: life death meaning struggle depression post-modernism
It's a fact...that in societies like ours sex truly represents a second system of differentiation, completely independent of money; and as a system of differentiation it functions just as mercilessly. The effects of these two systems are, furthermore, strictly equivalent. Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization . Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women; others with none. It's what's known as 'the law of the market'...Economic liberalism is an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society. Sexual liberalism is likewise an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society.
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