Senso della fine e senso del finale nei romanzi di Michel Houellebecq
Abstract
The article compares the endings of the Houellebecq’s main novels in order to investigate if and how they play a crucial role in the economy of the whole work, revealing unexpected consonances and providing keys for his reflection on the end. Drawing on Kermode’s idea of the “sense of an ending” as the perception of living in the kairos, the articles chooses to focus on Houellebecq’s works which revolve obsessively on the end and investigate it from several points of view - separation, liberation, transcendence, defeat – and thus can be considered highly representatives of what has been defined as the contemporary ”hypermodernity”.Downloads
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