The book is launched today, it's called "Submission" and the narrative takes place in France whose political future is, in the novel, polarised between the extreme right and a Muslim party.
The controversy apparently installed in the country in which the nationalists gain ground denouncing, among others, the problem of the islamisation of France.
A Christmas present to Marine Le Pen? Michel Houellebecq: she doesn't need it. Things are going very well. I don't think this will change anything to your destination. I don't know a single example of a romance that has changed the course of history ... that's something else, are rehearsals, the Communist Manifesto, things like that change the course of history. The novels do not. "
The author has been accused of being xenophobic, racist and provocative-in 2001 said in an interview that "Islam is the stupidest of religions", being prosecuted for incitement to racial hatred, but eventually acquitted.