Phares et farce Centres de gravité et gravité d’une œuvre qui s’éclate

The unity of Houellebecq’s novels can be found in their systematic exploration of the highbrow and the lowbrow. Like Fumaroli, Houellebecq rehearses the arguments of reformist iconoclasm and the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns (and Post-Moderns) within the context of a catholic cultural heritage. This is shaken by the lowbrow liberal tidal wave coming from post Revolutionary and contemporary American culture.