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Michel Houellebecq's Posthumanism and Novelistic Dystopias The article inspects the usage of the genre of anticipatory dystopia in selected novels by the world's most famous contemporary French novelist Michel Houellebecq (* 1956). In the first part, we examine the narrative and aesthetic relevance of anticipatory dystopia as a subversive allegoric tool of the author's novelistic discourse in the novels Elementary Particles (1998, Slovak translation 2017), Possibility of an Island (2005, Slovak translation 2021) and Submission (2015, Slovak translation 2021). In the second part, our aim is to demonstrate that the transgressive dystopian nature of Houellebecqian prose constitutes for the reader a source of knowledge about the epistemological paradigm shift of the contemporary world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Metalepsis in Michel Houellebecq's novel discourse The present article inspects the exploitation of the narrative figure of authorial metalepsis in chosen novels by Michel Houellebecq (1956), the world acclaimed contemporary French novelist. We argue that via abundant metaleptical trangressions, the author attempts at renarrativisation of the postmodern novel, wherein the use of metalepsis significantly contributes to playful, poetic and polyphonic nature of the author's novelistic discourse. Furthermore, we argue that the transgressive metaleptical nature of Houellebecq's discourse represents a salient tool for the reader to acquire both individual introspection and knowledge of the epistemological nature of the contemporary world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]