![]() ![]() ![]() Several weeks later Olga announces that she has accepted a promotion, which will send her back to Moscow.Īfter Olga's departure Jed abandons photography and returns to painting. ![]() The exhibition is aptly called "The map is more interesting than the territory". She arranges for Jed's first solo exhibition in the recently opened Espace Michelin, which marks Martin's artistic breakthrough. After working as a commercial photographer Martin enjoys some success with a series of close-up photographs of Michelin maps of parts of France.Īt the opening of the group exhibition where his photos are first exhibited he meets Olga, a young beautiful Russian woman who works with Michelin. Martin graduates from Paris's art academy with a series of 11,000 photos of everyday objects. The Map and the Territory tells the story of an artist, Jed Martin, who, more or less despite himself, achieves fame and fortune. It is as if Houellebecq wanted to say that this time around he didn't spare himself either. His publisher tells the police officers, who investigate the crime, that he had a lot of enemies, though none of them would be capable of murder. ![]() Half-way into The Map and the Territory, the new novel by Michel Houellebecq, Houellebecq is brutally murdered. ![]()
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