Michel Houellebecq, one of the most widely read modern authors, took it upon himself to analyze - in a very unconventional, “reflective” manner - the work of another, famous writer of the early 20th century, Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Houellebecq traces the life of a strange man and a strange writer, who deliberately built his life in contrast to contemporary literary fashion and social changes - be it racial tolerance or the universal desire for enrichment. His eerie, esoteric, overloaded with images and rhetoric prose can successfully claim the title of anti-prose: anti-commercial, anti-popular, anti-banal.