Submission

The brilliant and unpredictable Michelle Welbek is one of the most famous writers of the planet, the author of world bestseller “Elementary Particles”, “Platform”, “Opportunity of the Island”, “Map and Territory” (Goncurovsky Prize of 2010). His sixth novel “Subragency”, by fatal coincidence, fell on the shelves on the day of the bloody attack in the magazine “Charlie Ebdo”, which dedicated the issue of this book.

“submissiveness” tells about the collapse in the near future of the modern political system of France. Welbek himself defined the genre of his novel as “political science fiction”. The action takes place in 2022. The President-Muslim comes to power democratically, the country begins to change before our eyes. A lonely intellectual named Francois, absorbed in science, university intrigues and the search for temporary friends, unexpectedly discovers that his world is collapsing like cards of a house.