| Author | Michel Houellebecq |
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| Original title | Extension du domaine de la lutte |
| Translator | Paul Hammond |
| Language | French |
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Publication date | 1994 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1998 |
Whatever (French: Extension du domaine de la lutte, literally "extension of the domain of struggle") is the debut novel of French writer Michel Houellebecq. The plot concerns a depressed and isolated computer programmer who tries to convince a colleague to murder a young woman who rejected the colleague's sexual advances. A major theme is that the sexual revolution of the 1960s extended capitalism to the sexual market, creating an unattractive sexual underclass. It was adapted into the 1999 film Whatever, directed by and starring Philippe Harel.[1]