Whatever

Synopsis

Just thirty, with a well-paid job, no love life and a terrible attitude, the anti-hero of this grim, funny novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until he's packed off with a colleague - the sexually-frustrated raphael tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer systemhouellebecq's first novel was a smash hit in france, expressing the misanthropic voice of a generation.