‘I never left anybody. It was him that left me’

 

Literature

“Michel Houellebecq, France’s most shocking novelist, made his name with tales of dysfunctional, estranged relationships. Now his own mother, portrayed as a sex-obsessed hippy in one of his books, has launched a devastating counter-attack in a new memoir. […] She calls her son an ‘evil, stupid little bastard’ adding that ‘this individual, who alas came from my womb, is a liar, an imposter, a parasite and above all - above all - a petit arriviste ready to do absolutely anything for money and fame.’” - story