{"id":7464,"date":"2017-01-28T20:41:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T20:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=7464"},"modified":"2017-01-28T20:41:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T20:41:41","slug":"submission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=7464","title":{"rendered":"Submission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelondonmagazine.org\/the-atheists-burden\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7468 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/michel-houellebecq-700x357-2.jpg\" alt=\"michel-houellebecq-700x357 2\" width=\"465\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/michel-houellebecq-700x357-2.jpg 401w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/michel-houellebecq-700x357-2-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Reading this passage recently offered me a slightly different way to think about the title of Houellebecq&#8217;s latest and more compelling novel,\u00a0<em>Submission<\/em>. The word &#8220;difficult&#8221; here worked like a droll, understated punch line, which is how most of the wit\u00a0works in Houellebecq. From <em>The Map and the Territory<\/em>, Michel Houellebecq:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Many years later, when he had become famous\u2014extremely famous, truth be told\u2014Jed would be asked numerous times what it meant, in his eyes, to be an artist. He would find nothing very interesting or original to say, except one thing, which he would consequently repeat in each interview: to be an artist, in his view, was above all to be someone submissive. Someone who submitted himself to mysterious, unpredictable messages, that you would be led, for want of a better word and in the absence of any religious belief, to describe as intuitions, messages which nonetheless commanded you in an imperious and categorical manner, without leaving the slightest possibility of escape\u2014except by losing any notion of integrity and self-respect. These messages could involve destroying a work, or even an entire body of work, to set off in a radically new direction, or even occasionally no direction at all, without having any project at all, or the slightest hope of continuing. It was thus, and only thus, that the artist\u2019s condition could, sometimes, be described as difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Reading this passage recently offered me a slightly different way to think about the title of Houellebecq&#8217;s latest and more compelling novel,\u00a0Submission. The word &#8220;difficult&#8221; here worked like a droll, understated punch line, which is how most of the wit\u00a0works in Houellebecq. 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