About the book: 2011 / The book “Humanity, stage 2” includes articles, essays and interviews by Michel Houellebecq over the past decade and a half. Some of them have already been published in a collection published in Russian under the title “The World as a Supermarket.” There is, for example, a brilliant essay on Jacques Prévert and a wonderful article on silent cinema. However, the texts that have appeared in recent years are no less vibrant and interesting. The author's opinion will cause approval among some, and a desire to argue among others, but will not leave anyone indifferent. This, as critics note, is Houellebecq’s “signature style.”.