Crowds, Cancer, Clones: Houellebecq rewrites Canetti Professor David Roberts will presenting a paper at the University of Melbourne on May the 5th 2017 The importance of Aldous Huxley for Michel Houellebecq has long been recognised. Atomised (Les particules elementaires, 1998) and The Possibility of an Island both engage with Huxley’s utopian fictions. What has not been recognised is the…