Is this jackass even able to write a novel not including an edgy

How is Francois a self insert? For this novel hollaback had to research what it's like being a professor because we was never in academia.

>>8227874
>we
inb4 /pol/ memes

>>8227859
Nah he makes you think it's himself or yourself so that you can vaguely project into it, but at some point towards the end there's a shift and i doubt anyone could think the same way as his character does.

>>8227874
all the nihilistic stupidity and the decadence mostly. Who gives a shit what the background of the character is? He could be a skydiving Spacestronaut for all I care, its his shitty attitude that's all Houllebecq

>>8227937
Houellebecq always has an average mediocre kind of character so that most people can project themselves in their most basic level, striped away of all our social masks.

>>8227937
So the aspects that Houellebecq is criticizing are also somehow the aspects that he is self inserting as?

>>8227947
>>8227948
I don't know Houllebecq personally of course but are you going to tell me this isn't the same asshole from Elementary Particles?

>>8227968
No. Why would it be? You see all kinds of writers using "I" in their book, and sometimes it feels a lot like them when you hear them in interviews, but it's still a creation.

>>8227968
Which asshole? He's not autistic enough to be Michel and he's not dumb enough to be Bruno. Also how is recurring characterization self-insertion?

>>8227874
WE WUZ ACADEMIKS

>SOCIAL SATIRE
IT's phROPHECY

>>8227859
>Is this jackass even able to write a novel not including an edgy self-insert protagonist?
no

that should be obvious by now
i mean he L I T E R A L L Y self-inserts in La carte et la territoire