In light of the recent French elections, in which the “grown up” centrists (so-called) of Emmanuel Macron were roundly rejected by the “immature” French people in favour of firstly Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, then the far-Left New Popular Front, we have been examining the nation’s politics through the prism of the novels of Michel Houellebecq – see Part One here.
These books are capable of being viewed as bizarre rewrites of the sci-fi horror novels of Houellebecq’s adolescent literary hero, the American Weird Fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft (HPL to his fans), in which the overtly hideous Earth-invading alien demons, like the squid-headed giant Cthulhu, have been replaced instead by a kind of silent invasion of inhuman beings of another kind – a self-styled higher caste of deracinated, post-human globalist technocratic politicians of the Emmanuel Macron class.
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