Interpretation of the problem of a death in the M. Houellebecq’s novel “The Elementary Particles”

Abstract

It is noted that the Schopenhauer’s philosophy has influenced on the writer. It is mentioned that the detailed descriptions of the death with a large number of clinical details connects M. Houellebecq’s novels with naturalism. It is analyzed how M. Houellebecq affects the problem of a death in the system of the characters. It is proved that the death in the M. Houellebecq’s work loses its dramatic effect, becomes the banal phenomenon. It is the characteristic of the modernity. The genre of the novel-menippea allows to the writer to describe the death seriously and with the irony at the same time.