Houellebecq

A vision of life: either you are depressed, obsessed or bored. I think this has been quite well expressed in Michel Houellebecq's books, esp. Les Particules élémentaires. The reader finds cultural themes (Comte, Huxley and the utilitarians), sexual perversions, popular culture gone wrong, biology, and science fiction in a fireworks display of ideas. His even more controversial Plateforme, that "promotes" sex tourism, is more controlled.