A French Requiem
On January 7, the literary event everyone was expecting did not occur. Indeed, the long-awaited publication of Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel, Soumission—which envisions, in 2022, the second round of a French presidential election opposing Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Front, and Mohammed Ben Abbès, head of the Muslim Brotherhood—was overshadowed by the attack on the satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Instead of the fictional “civil war between Muslim immigrants and Western Europe natives” imagined in Houellebecq’s novel, two jihadists affiliated with Al Qaeda had killed twelve people including five famous cartoonists.
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