Volksfeinde

After the controversies over the novel 'Subjugation' and the personal hostilities against its author, this duel in words is more topical than ever. Bernard-Henri Lévy and Michel Houellebecq are two of the most important intellectuals of the French literary scene and have proven to be "enemies of the people": the controversial philosopher meets the most hated contemporary French writer. Two confessing narcissists ask themselves what they have done to deserve the hatred of the public and dissect their own image with clever coquetry: an exchange of blows that goes into the private and the political, treats poetic questions just as much as philosophical ones and entertains them brilliantly on the side.