To stay alive

For the first time the world's best-selling author of "Elementary particles" and "Platform" appears in front of Russian public as a poet. The book includes poems from his collections "Pursuit of happiness" (prize of Tristan Tzara, 1992), "the Meaning of struggle" (prize "Flor", 1996), "Renaissance" (1999) and the essays "Stay alive" (1991), stylized beginners guide to poets. M. Houellebecq, famous sarcasm and stiffness of his prose, is practiced here, as confessed poets for centuries, and fits to date, all the themes of world poetry, including satire on the surrounding life, the longing for goodness and unrequited love. Many of these poems were set to music by French composer B. Burgula and became the first album Houellebecq "Presence humaine" ("Human presence", 2000).