Lanzarote (narration)
Lanzarote is a short story by the French author Michel Houellebecq published by Flammarion in 2000 . The German translation by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel appeared in the same year under the title Lanzarote: Erzählung by the Cologne publisher DuMont .
action
In December 1999 the little French employee Michel decided to book a vacation trip to the Canary Island of Lanzarote . On the island, Michel met the Belgian police officer Rudi and the two lesbian German women Pam and Barbara. He has a threesome with the two women . Otherwise, he'll be bored for the rest of his vacation trip. At first a friendly relationship developed with the Belgian Rudi, but then he turned to the sect of the Azraëlisten (based on the New Religious Movement of the Raelians ). Later, Rudi and other sect members in Belgium are charged with child pornography. Michel is following the process, but is no longer present for the verdict to be pronounced.
review
“Once again, Houellebecq presents ... the end of the century as the result of insanity and crime, the ultimate victory of vulgar materialistic thinking and a diffuse desire for redemption. And his cunning strategy game with the moral indifference of the anything-goes era works: Regardless of whether the reader defends himself against the unreasonable demands of this text, he / she has taken the stereotype on the glue. ... Match point for Houellebecq, who, unsatisfied, can continue dreaming of his genetic utopias without sex. As a narrator, he will probably continue to play on attack: that makes him so dubiously valuable. "
“With“ Lanzarote ”, Houellebecq makes the subject the basic theme and, as expected, the result is a concentrated representation of his worldview in the triad of porn-Pepsi-psychotropic drugs. But the book does offer a little surprise: Not only does this world contain an emergency exit to the clone and cuddle paradise as usual, it also doesn't seem so bleak to Houellebecq. "
“Michel Houellebecq's story shows all the key words that spark public interest: sperm donation , biotechnology , cloning , scandal in Belgium , child abuse . If his story had a register, one could see at a glance that Houellebecq's vengeance against the swamp of the present, which is not waged with fury but viewed with the sad eyes of a beaten and abandoned child, would like to be a little chronique scandaleuse. In Houellebecq's cloudy dinosaur eyes, you only need the length of a story, the size of a pocket mirror for this screwed-up world. "
Stage play
Directed by Karoline Behrens , a solo play with actor Michael Benthin was created at the Schauspiel Frankfurt in January 2011 .
expenditure
- Lanzarote , Flammarion, Paris, 2000, ISBN 2-08-067927-9
- Lanzarote: Short story , translated from the French by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel, DuMont, Cologne, 2000, ISBN 3-7701-5550-5
- Lanzarote: story rororo , Reinbek near Hamburg, 2004, ISBN 3-499-23644-3
Web links
- Michel Houellebecq - Lanzarote at perlentaucher.de
- The petty bourgeois on vacation: Michel Houellebecq's story "Lanzarote"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stereotypes in Lanzarote - Houellebecq is going on vacation ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at lyrikwelt.de, accessed on April 26, 2011
- ↑ Holidays with parents at spiegel.de, accessed on April 26, 2011
- ↑ No heaven on earth at faz.net, accessed April 26, 2011
- ↑ Captured in the volcano mantra at nachtkritik.de, accessed on April 26, 2011