Michel Houellebecq and Materialist Horror with Louis Betty
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Welbeck's Sense of Humor, Isn't It?
i think that the interest of his work lies elsewhere, ultimatelyad it's a critique of materialism of the western var. I guess the irony is as well, that in pointing out the sexes, that maybe the homophobi the races, things which are happening in welbeck's novels under his voice, isn't as if he's an anomaly. Welbeck's sort of pointing out that the world is rife with that, these characters are just normal people, right? So it's not, you know, wherever you stand, i'm not trying to excuse welbeck if that was his own position. But o, the new york times, for example, has been consistently dour
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