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''Submission'' ((フランス語:Soumission)) is a novel by the French writer Michel Houellebecq. The French edition of the book was published on 7 January 2015 by Flammarion, with German (German: ''Unterwerfung'') and Italian (Italian: ''Sottomissione'') translations also published in January. The book instantly became a bestseller in Italy, Germany and France.〔 The English edition of the book, translated by Lorin Stein, was published on 10 September 2015. The novel, a political satire, imagines a situation in which a Muslim party upholding traditionalist and patriarchal values leads the 2022 vote in France and is able to form a government with the support of France's Islamo-Leftist Socialist Party. The book drew an unusual amount of attention because, by a macabre coincidence, it was released on the day of the Charlie Hebdo massacre. == Plot == François, a middle-aged literature professor at Paris III and specialist of Huysmans, feels he is at the end of his sentimental and sexual lives – composed largely of year-long liaisons with his students. It has been years since the last time he created any valuable university work. France is in the grip of political crisis – in order to stave off a National Front victory, the Socialists ally with the newly-formed Muslim Brotherhood Party (with additional support of the Union for a Popular Movement), proposing a charming and physically imposing Islamic candidate, Mohammed Ben-Abbes, for the presidency against Marine Le Pen. In despair at the emerging political situation, and the inevitability of anti-semitism becoming a major force in French politics, Francois' young and attractive Jewish girlfriend, Myriam, emigrates to Israel. His mother and father die. He fears that he is heading towards suicide, and takes refuge at a monastery situated in the town of Martel. The monastery is an important symbol of Charles Martel's victory over Islamic forces, over one thousand years earlier; it is also where his literary hero, Huysmans, became a lay member. With the backing of a complaisant Socialist Party, and an effete UMP (formerly the main rightist party in France), the brilliant and cunning politician, Mohammed Ben Abbes, wins the 2022 presidential election, and becomes President of France. He pacifies France, enacts sweeping changes to French laws, privatizing the Sorbonne (thereby making Francois redundant with full pension as only Muslims are now allowed to teach there), putting the equality between men and women to an end, allowing polygamy (several of Francois' intellectually inferior colleagues, having converted to Islam, get good jobs and make arranged marriages with attractive young wives), and enlarges the European Union with the aim of making it a new Roman Empire, with France at its lead. In this new, different society, with the support of the powerful politician, Robert Rediger, the novel ends with François poised to convert to Islam and the prospect of a second, better life, with a prestigious job, and wives chosen for him. The novel mixes fiction with reality: François Hollande, Marine Le Pen, François Bayrou and Jean-François Copé, among others, fleetingly appear as characters in the book. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Submission (novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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