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Photograph by Vincent Ferran\u00e9. To see more photographs of Houellebecq, click the picture above.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve become a cause,\u201d declares Michel Houellebecq when asked how he really feels, a few hours after winning the Prix Goncourt. And it\u2019s true: If he hadn\u2019t won France\u2019s biggest literary prize, it would have been more than a disappointment; it would have been a defeat. (And I don\u2019t even want to think about the bloggers, his fiercest supporters. The bloggers would have exploded.)<\/p>\n

Now it\u2019s midnight: We\u2019re at the Montana drinking vodka with some kind of blue mint thing in it\u2014\u201cwe\u201d being a small gang rounded up by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Beigbeder after dinner. No way is the novelist and former talk-show host (one of our more energetic litt\u00e9rateurs) going to let his friend Michel crawl into bed with his Goncourt. \u201cBetween Michel getting the Goncourt and Virginie Despentes winning le Renaudot,\u201d
\nBeigbeder exclaims, \u201ca whole generation\u2014our generation\u2014has finally won!\u201d There’s a brief silence, and we must all think the same thing without saying it: If we\u2019ve won and there’s nothing to fight for, it\u2019s probably downhill from here.<\/p>\n

Of course, we can always wait for Houellebecq to get the Nobel. \u201cAfter France, the world!\u201d jokes Beigbeder, and everybody\u2019s quick to raise a glass. A colleague from Les Inrocks<\/a><\/em> joins us and immediately falls into a passionate discussion with Michel. When I ask Sylvain Bourmeau (an editor at France\u2019s most important news site, Mediapart<\/a>) what\u2019s got them so worked up, he tells me \u201ccharcuterie.\u201d And in fact, when we were all crammed into a car on the way to the Montana, Michel held forth with great precision on the subject of his car (sorry, don\u2019t ask me the make); it occurred to me that this is what makes him so deeply charming and also, perhaps, part of what makes him such a powerful novelist: his capacity to be completely present, without any irony, whether the subject is literature, feelings, or cars. Later, a blond angel of Russian origin absconds with him, once he\u2019s already half-asleep. This would be Maria, the young woman who served as a model for the character of Olga in La Carte et le t\u00e9rritoire<\/a><\/em>. \u201cAll my characters are here,\u201d Houellebecq joked during the dinner thrown in his honor at La Mediterran\u00e9e. He then asked them to rise: Beigbeder, Maria, and his editor, Teresa Crimisi, who shares with Houellebecq a very sportsmanlike air of victory\u2014all calm joy, no bragadoccio.<\/p>\n

\u201cWatch out,\u201d Houellebecq tells his guests, \u201cthe rest of you are next.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true, the room holds plenty of characters you could easily see in a Houellebecq novel. There\u2019s the ultra-chic Bernard-Henri L\u00e9vy (who collaborated with Houellebecq on the book Public Enemies<\/a><\/em>); his wife, the actress Arielle Dombasle (who had the foresight to bring an e-cigarette); Yasmina Reza (in jeans and a little leopard-skin coat); the founder of Elle<\/em>, longtime Vogue<\/em> editor, and president of the Goncourt prize committee, Edmonde Charles-Roux (perfect in Chanel and Saint-Laurent); Fran\u00e7ois Samuelson (the agent who represents all the prize winners nowadays); and the philosopher Alain Finkielkraut (who has found himself attacked by Bourmeau for his increasingly right-wing positions on Muslims in French society). Houellebecq tries to make peace between Finkielkraut and Bourmeau, but each turns awkwardly away; and when Michel insists, \u201cReally, it means a lot to me,\u201d they are saved by the smiling intervention of Crimisi: \u201cOh, Michel, you really ought to leave these two alone … \u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the sort of night it was, full of people from different sides, all of whom shared the same exhilaration at seeing Houellebecq finally receive his due. A night of warmth, happiness, and emotion. As for the cocktail party at the Od\u00e9on theater beforehand\u2014I couldn\u2019t see a thing, except for a horde of starving old women throwing themselves on a tray of petit fours. We suspected they might be retired critics, and we hoped that when our time comes, Michel Houellebecq might send us a box of ravioli, every now and then, as a souvenir of better times.<\/p>\n

Nelly Kaprielian is a critic and editor in Paris, France. To see more of Vincent Ferran\u00e9\u2019s photographs of Houellebecq, click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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