Abstract: What did American reviewers think about Michel Houellebecq’s novel Soumission? What were their reactions to his peculiar treatment of Islam, French democracy and women’s future in a religious society? Furthermore what was the American reader’s take on his prose and style? All these questions and more will be answered by his American critics in the broadest sense of the term, through a corpus of around fifty articles, opinions and reviews drawn from newspapers, blogs and scholars’ research.
