Curiously given the controversy surrounding its portrayal of Islam, Submission places Islam in dialogue with the values of the West and repeatedly finds the West lacking. If Islam has a kind of dynamism and vitality, a desire to reproduce itself, what does the West have? Even the study of literature, that ‘major art form’ of the West and its crowning jewel, is dismissed as ‘a rather farcical system that exists solely to replicate itself and yet still manages to fail more than 95 per cent of the time.’
Michel Houellebecq's Submission, sex realism…
Curiously given the controversy surrounding its portrayal of Islam, Submission places Islam in dialogue with the values of the West and repeatedly finds the West lacking. If Islam has a kind of dynamism and vitality, a desire to reproduce itself, what does the West have? Even the study of literature, that ‘major art form’ of the West and its crowning jewel, is dismissed as ‘a rather farcical system that exists solely to replicate itself and yet still manages to fail more than 95 per cent of the time.’