Michel Houellebecq (born 1958) is a poet, essayist, prose writer, the most polemical and best-selling author in France and Europe. In his homeland he is called a cult writer and the “Karl Marx of sex.” Each of his books is a bestseller. Lanzarote is an island in the heart of the world... Neither lovers of cultural recreation nor fans of green tourism should go there. There is a lunar landscape, called “Martian” by travel agencies, and curious specimens of the human race seducing each other.