Michelle Welbeck "Platform"
In the novel "Platform", disguised asa sentimental journey, the surrounding world is given in the movement from West to East with the eyes at first completely indifferent, then absolutely happy and - after the death of the beloved - a broken and unhappy man."For the rest of my life I will remain the son of Europe,a generation of anxiety and shame; I can not say anything encouraging. To the West, I do not hate, only great contempt. I know one thing: such as we are, we are stupefied, for through and through are imbued with selfishness, masochism and death.
We created a system in which it became impossible to live; and worse, we continue to spread it to the rest of the world, "concludes the novel's hero.
about the author
Michelle Whelbec (p. 1958) - French writer, poet, essayist, mosta polemical European author, touching on the most acute topics of modern times and often proposing paradoxical solutions. So, investigating the phenomenon of sexual freedom, he said that this is a trap for a modern person. No wonder one French critic dubbed him "Karl Marx sex".
His novel Elementary Particles (1998) received the Grand Prix, followed by Platforma, Lanzarote, Opportunity of the Island, and others, and each of these books became a bestseller.
