After reading a few years ago The Possibility of an Island and some time later Platforma, Now I have decided to read me The map and the territory French writer Michel Houellebecq. These two first novels seemed quite depressed, the writer describes a society devalued, I guess that I have lived and that caused me some disappointment, I think it was so well written they were and what he told me was credible. The truth is that the books I read I was hooked and quickly.

But in his latest book, the experience has been very different, style that retains its melancholy aftertaste that characterizes depressive but I really enjoyed it and I imagine that the author also had fun incorporating many real characters in his novel even he becomes co-star in his own work.

The protagonist is a young French painter and the author describes his brilliant career. I found it very attractive to know a little artistic process, difficult beginnings, finding the inspiration, the fluke, the influence of marketing, market, All these factors make a man making art becomes valued as such. This book challenged many artistic concepts that currently make contemporary art shake so I think this book is more than a fictional novel.