Comments on: Another woman who doesn’t like Michel Houellebecq http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2008/05/07/another-woman-who-doesnt-like-michel-houellebecq/ SinĂ©ad Gleeson's blog Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:11:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Dotsy http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2008/05/07/another-woman-who-doesnt-like-michel-houellebecq/#comment-135611 Dotsy Thu, 15 May 2008 18:01:57 +0000 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2008/05/07/another-woman-who-doesnt-like-michel-houellebecq/#comment-135611 I think we will have to let this argument go. I am starting to blog again after a long absence. Thanks for asking! I think we will have to let this argument go. I am starting to blog again after a long absence. Thanks for asking!

]]> By: Sinead http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2008/05/07/another-woman-who-doesnt-like-michel-houellebecq/#comment-135596 Sinead Thu, 15 May 2008 07:45:52 +0000 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2008/05/07/another-woman-who-doesnt-like-michel-houellebecq/#comment-135596 Dotsy, I think it's reductionist to reduced discussions on Carter to literary form. Ditto Rushdie on historical fact on fiction.`The question discussing Houellebecq in the context of gender is not subjective - it may have been if I said I didn't like his work (I do) and based that view on being a woman (I didn't), so I'll have to disagree with your claims of disingeniousness. Are you still blogging? Dotsy, I think it’s reductionist to reduced discussions on Carter to literary form. Ditto Rushdie on historical fact on fiction.`The question discussing Houellebecq in the context of gender is not subjective - it may have been if I said I didn’t like his work (I do) and based that view on being a woman (I didn’t), so I’ll have to disagree with your claims of disingeniousness.

Are you still blogging?

]]> By: Dotsy http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2008/05/07/another-woman-who-doesnt-like-michel-houellebecq/#comment-135594 Dotsy Wed, 14 May 2008 22:49:05 +0000 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2008/05/07/another-woman-who-doesnt-like-michel-houellebecq/#comment-135594 A discussion of magical realism in Angela Carter would simply be about literary form. While colonialism in Rushdie is tracing the effect of historical fact on fiction. Detached exercises both. But deciding on Houllebecq on the basis of one's own gender? This is subjective, essentialist and yes most definitely reductionist. To claim otherwise is disingenuous. But I suppose it passes the time and he does seem to have a bit of a problem with women. A discussion of magical realism in Angela Carter would simply be about literary form. While colonialism in Rushdie is tracing the effect of historical fact on fiction. Detached exercises both. But deciding on Houllebecq on the basis of one’s own gender? This is subjective, essentialist and yes most definitely reductionist. To claim otherwise is disingenuous. But I suppose it passes the time and he does seem to have a bit of a problem with women.

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