The controversial French writer Michel Houellebecq will give three talks in Buenos Aires as part of his second official visit to Argentina.

Houellebecq, who was considered by the Argentine Juan José Saer as a minor artist, He is currently seen as one of the most important novelists in his country. Your last post, Submission, are a world best seller. That book imagines a France ruled by an Islamist party and went on sale in 2015, the same day of the massacre in the Charlie Hebdo newsroom.

Thursday 10 to 20 it will be the first official presentation, in room AB of the San Martín Cultural Center (Sarmiento 1551). There he will talk with the writer and editor Gonzalo Garcés about his literary work, and will review some of your biggest milestones. Tickets are collected on the spot from two hours before the event.

Saturday 12 to 19 your second intervention will be carried out, at the Scientific and Technological Pole (Godoy Cruz 2320), in a capacity with capacity for 500 people. There he will offer a conference whose title is “Intellectuals abandon the left”, With free entry.

And finally, on Sunday 13, to 17.30, will participate in a conversation about his films in the microcinema of the Recoleta Cultural Center (Junín 1930), where fragments of the films will be screened “Near Death Experience” Y “The kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq”.