Michel Houellebecq (b. 1958) is a French writer, poet, essayist, and the most polemical author in Europe. Winner of the Grand Prix in the field of literature for the novel Elementary Particles (1998). The novel “Expanding the Space of Struggle” (1994) is Houellebecq’s first book, which made him famous.

Economic liberalism, sexual freedom: what are these – true benefits or imposed rules of the game? This is the question asked by the hero of the novel, summing up his own bitter life experience.