As a tongue-in-cheek gimmick, the novel also portrays a few celebrities from French literature and the French media, including Houellebecq himself, Frédéric Beigbeder, Julien Lepers, and Jean-Pierre Pernaut.
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It was published five years after his prior novel, The Possibility of an Island.
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In 2010, French author Michel Houellebecq published his novel, La Carte et le Territoire, translated into English as The Map and the Territory.