Imagining of Literature

Submission? Freshly out of my PhD, I find myself in a post-state where fatigue of extensive writing still lingers but the desire of a new project is becoming more prominent with each day. However disillusioned I felt after the first feat (which defending my neo gothic project was), the need to research, to work or simply be engaged in the literary field was overwhelming. As a means of winding down I have always preferred reading and that is how I stumbled upon Michel Houellebecq’s Submission . I intend not to review the novel but to comment the possibilities it draws for the near future. If you are not acquainted with the plot, I will outline the basics. In some 10 years from now the political map of Europe is reshaped by the inclusion of Muslim parties that actively take part in every area of life. After the last election in France the Muslim party candidate is named the next president and his governing policies include great changes in education and society. Patriarchy is the ‘ne...