The 112-page book will be titled "A Few Months in My Life, October 2022-March 2023," the publisher says.
The back cover will say: "For the first time in my life I felt treated, absolutely, as the object of a wildlife documentary; It's hard for me to forget that moment."
In November 2022, the author of "The Map and the Territory" (Prix Goncourt 2010) signed a contract with a director, Stefan Ruitenbeek, for a pornographic film.
Two versions are opposed as to the course of the shooting, in Paris and Amsterdam in December. According to Mr. Ruitenbeek, it went very well and should make a good film. Mr. Houellebecq instead accuses the director of having trapped him when he wanted not to be recognizable.
The writer has already told his side of the story in an open letter to Mr. Ruitenbeek published on his website, in documents sent to the French and Dutch courts to try to ban the film, and in tribunes published by various press titles in Europe such as Corriere della sera or El País.
The Paris Court, considering that it lacked jurisdiction, and the interim relief judge of the Amsterdam court, for which the contract was lawful and was respected, both rejected Mr Houellebecq's request to have the film banned.
A trailer for the film titled "Kirac 27" (named after the Dutch art collective Kirac behind the project) was released online in March and then withdrawn.
Michel Houellebecq is a very influential French writer, recognized for his quality of observation of the individualistic excesses of Western societies. But it is also controversial because of positions deemed racist and Islamophobic.
His latest book is the novel "Anéantir" published in January 2022.
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