A Estranha Amizade entre Henri-Levy e Houellebecq

Coisa de Francês, do despeito mútuo entre o filósofo e o escritor floresceu uma amizade e o produto dela é um novo livro Public Enemies: The same person who started that rumor about the Google Alerts also described BHL as "a philosopher without an original idea" who "dishonors even the white shirt you wear"; a Champagne socialist; "an intimate of the powerful who has since childhood wallowed in obscene wealth," and worse, "the creator of the most preposterous film in the history of cinema." The writer of those cruel words is now, bizarrely, one of his closest friends.
It is Michel Houellebecq, another French intellectual and writer, now in exile in Ireland, who describes himself in Public Enemies variously as a nihilist, misogynist, and redneck. MH is also not without his own traumas: He has been accused of inciting racial hatred; allegedly plagiarized; loathed by certain critics; accused of writing books that are a cross between Baudelaire and schlock. In short, this is not a man who people have gentle opinions about either. It was only a matter of time before these two enormous egos would clash—and try to slay each other.