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{{Quote|"Lacking in looks as well as personal charm [..] I don’t in the least correspond to what women are usually looking for in a man,” the narrator confesses. Houellebecq has always seen himself as speaking for and to such men"|Adam Kirsch in the New York Times}} | {{Quote|"Lacking in looks as well as personal charm [..] I don’t in the least correspond to what women are usually looking for in a man,” the narrator confesses. Houellebecq has always seen himself as speaking for and to such men"|Adam Kirsch in the New York Times}} | ||
It seems Adam is more correct, and Houllebecq was not writing simply to mock, but to illustrate what life is like for an incel in a sympathetic and foreboding manner. Whatever was not written in the spirit of being a [[chad]]. The main reason being the novel was a self-autobiographical work about his life after a crumbling and extremely short marriage. This was the period of his life between 1988-1991 when he was a nobody, had no public accomplishment under his belt, became a programmer, fell into a depression, visited psychiatric hospitals, experienced periods of unemployement, had no partner etc<ref>https://quillette.com/2019/04/10/michel-houellebecq-prophet-or-troll/</ref>, major themes in the book Whatever. Houllebecq only became anywhere close to a [[chad]] after this point in his life, when his writing career started building in the 1990s. His writing eventually took off after his first published hit in 1998, the same year he found a partner again.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/nov/05/fiction.michelhouellebecq</ref> | It seems Adam is more correct, and Houllebecq was not writing simply to mock, but to illustrate what life is like for an incel in a sympathetic and foreboding manner. Whatever was not written in the spirit of being a [[chad]]. The main reason being the novel was a self-autobiographical work about his life after a crumbling and extremely short marriage (his first). This was the period of his life between 1988-1991 when he was a nobody, had no public accomplishment under his belt, became a programmer, fell into a depression, visited psychiatric hospitals, experienced periods of unemployement, had no partner etc<ref>https://quillette.com/2019/04/10/michel-houellebecq-prophet-or-troll/</ref>, major themes in the book Whatever. Houllebecq only became anywhere close to a [[chad]] after this point in his life, when his writing career started building in the 1990s. His writing eventually took off after his first published hit in 1998, the same year he found a partner again.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/nov/05/fiction.michelhouellebecq</ref> | ||
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