The outline of the last shore

The return of Michel Houellebecq poetry – a real event. Goncourt laureate, the author heard around the world of the novels "the Elementary particles", "Platform", "the map and the territory", "Submission" released in the 90-ies of three poetry collections, which was considered the best he's ever written. However, after almost fifteen years of poems not published, and only in 2013, he published his fourth poetry book "the Outline of the last shore", which immediately became a literary sensation. Love, sex, fear of death, a fleeting insight, satirical attacks – the whole poetic tradition written here today.
Hard, stressed the importance of impartial, mocking Houellebecq opens in verse with an unexpected, daring lyrical confession.
The present collection includes translations of poems by Houellebecq from the books "the Pursuit of happiness" (1992), "the meaning of the struggle" (1996), "Rebirth" (1999), "the Outline of the last shore" (2013) and the essay "Staying alive" (1991), stylized as a textbook for young poets.