'My mother didn't love me enough' says French writer Houellebecq

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Controversial French novelist Michel Houellebecq admitted Tuesday that the bleakness at the heart of his work was because his mother didn & #039;t love him enough. & quot;It explains everything else, my personality, the most painful parts anyway, & quot; he said in the book, which also includes tributes to his work penned by fellow novelists Salman Rushdie and Julian Barnes as well as the rock star Iggy Pop. Although Houellebecq later played down the emotional privations of his childhood in an interview on French public television, his relations with the hippy doctor he once branded & quot;my old slut of a mother & quot; were notoriously bad.
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