{"product_id":"9780374538071","title":"Unreconciled: Poems 1991-2013; A Bilingual Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected poems from the critically acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eSubmission \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Elementary Particles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA shimmering selection of poems chosen from four collections of one of France’s most exciting authors, \u003ci\u003eUnreconciled \u003c\/i\u003eshines a fresh light on Michel Houellebecq and reveals the radical singularity of his work. Drawing on themes that are similar to the ones in his novels, these poems are a journey into the depths of individual experience and universal passions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDivided into five parts, \u003ci\u003eUnreconciled\u003c\/i\u003e forms a narrative of love, hopelessness, catastrophe, dedication, and—ultimately—redemption. In a world of supermarkets and public transportation, indifferent landscapes and lonely nights, Houellebecq manages to find traces of divine grace even as he exposes our inexorable decline into chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through forms and rhythms that are both ancient and new, with language steeped in the everyday, \u003ci\u003eUnreconciled \u003c\/i\u003estands in the tradition of Baudelaire while making a bold new claim on contemporary verse. It reveals that in addition to his work as an incisive novelist, Houellebecq is one of our most perceptive poets with a vision of our era that brims with tensions that cannot—and will not—be reconciled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48257393131760,"sku":"9780374538071","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374538071_p0.jpg?v=1763691366","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374538071","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}