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The Map and the Territory

Michel Houellebecq · 2010 CE · Novel · French · Contemporary

The artist Jed Martin rises from photographs of Michelin road maps to portraits of professions and a fortune he scarcely notices. The novelist Michel Houellebecq enters the book as a character, and it won the Goncourt.

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Attributes

Genre
SatireCrime / Noir
Theme
Art & CreationFame & GloryWealth & GreedIsolation & AlienationDeath & Mortality
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Creator
Plot type
Rags to Riches
Form
ChronicleMetafiction
Symbol / motif
The PortraitThe City
Conflict
vs Society
Mode / tone
SatiricalIronic
Culture / tradition
French

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