More fun from Houellebecq

“A master of the damp squib and the farcical media hype, you bring dishonour even to the white shirts you wear. Intimate with the powerful, you have bathed in obscene wealth since childhood and typify what slightly low-brow magazines such as Marianne continue to call the ‘caviar left’ and the German TV critics more delicately call Toskana Fraktion . . . . A philosopher without thought but not without connections, you are also the author of the most ridiculous film in the history of cinema”.