Escorted by agents of the French police since the bombing magazine Charlie Hebdo and amid own measures of a head of state security, Michel Houellebecq today presented in Barcelona ” Submission “a novel of political fiction with a France ruled by an Islamist president.
The always controversial French author Ambienta history in 2022, after a presidential election won by Mohammed Ben Abbes, causing soon changes in everyday French life and make the protagonist, François, a teacher expert writer Joris-Karl Huysmans university, arises embrace the Islamic faith.
Son of a woman who practiced throughout his life “spiritual zapping” and died as Orthodox Christian, the “enfant terrible” of French literature explained that when he started writing his first novel was intended that François became the Catholic faith, but changed his mind when he saw that it was hard to translate it.
However, he stressed that what was really wanted to talk about politics and those who use religion for their power options.
“I built the book he pointed to a poor character that you remove all your girlfriend, your parents, your work, your social life, its possible conversion to Catholicism and even their relationship with Huysmans’.
“In the end, nothing remains but trouble. That’s when someone offers you two or three women and a new salary appears. In return, simply give up their freedom of conscience, which is a tempting proposition” he argued.
Scruffy, with endless silences between sentences, smoking an electronic cigarette, Houellebecq, who does not know what he would do if someone made a similar proposal, said that, for the moment, what we do is very much in favor of “democracy direct, because representative democracy is a sham “.
The writer of “ Platform ” has asserted that “direct democracy is the only way out of the political crisis in which we are immersed” and has not hesitated to indicate that it should remove parliaments and all changes in law departing from a referendum or citizens’ initiatives.
In the case of France, would keep the President of the Republic -ve feasible one day be of islámica- religion, “but he could resign at any time.”
In a lengthy press conference, Houellebecq dropped other gems, like the French left is “very aggressive, because it feels threatened and perhaps doomed” and that France is a “strange, paradoxical, depressed people, but with country rate birth rates remain high. ”
It also maintained that they are “traitors by nature”. “Sorry,” he said.
Houellebecq said he has read the Quran and that “dangerous” are “violent interpretations” that this text are made.
He also recalled that the Koran is about how should behave Muslim with Jews and Christians and this is something that has not adopted the jihadist group Islamic State (EI), who attributed a ‘aberrant version “of this book.
Although sees open an “ever greater” fails, believes that the “one small advantage” of what has happened in recent months in the country is that many opt not to “stigmatize” those who practice the religion of Muhammad.
Moreover, described as “scandal” that the word of economists, professionals who would be “ideal” that did not exist.
Although changes in your life since the attacks of Charlie Hebdo, the writer said that is not afraid – “but maybe I’m wrong there,” he instructed, and even joked that the escorts who accompany him at all times “are nice” and along with them.
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