Les Temps tres Interesant

The times are now quite interesting for the French. They are grudgingly facing the prospect that the world does not view them as comment c'est dire.........necessaire! Here M. Houellbeque takes his lumps. His work has been described as racist, sexist, homophobic, reactionary, nihilistic, pornographic and repulsive, as well as moving, funny and prophetic. Three years ago, he was put on trial in Paris for inciting anti-Muslim hatred after he called Islam the world’s “most stupid religion” during an alcohol-laced interview with the French literary magazine Lire. Even those lovable Brazilians (“morons obsessed with soccer and Formula One”) have failed to escape his satirical pen. From the LA Weekly:http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/31/features-bernhard.php