Michel Houellebecq has a reputation as a heavy drinker and many of his protagonists mirror this tendency. This article focuses specifically on wine, asking whether the consumption of wine, both in his writing and in representations of his life, constitutes a simple cultural transgression, mainly via the quantities imbibed, or whether in fact wine is used as a complex literary device, a symbolic marker of national identity, social status and interpersonal relations. Tracing the presence and analysing the significance of wine in Houellebecq’s seven novels published to date reveals new ways to decode and interpret the author’s work through the prism of this product and its rich semantic field.

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Houellebecq的葡萄酒：文化侵略还是文学手段？

Michel Houellebecq以酗酒闻名，许多主角都反映了这一趋势。本文专门针对葡萄酒，询问葡萄酒的消费，无论是在写作上还是在生活中，都主要通过吸收的数量来构成一种简单的文化侵害，或者实际上是否将葡萄酒用作复杂的文学工具，国家身份，社会地位和人际关系的象征性标志。在Houellebecq迄今出版的七本小说中，通过追溯葡萄酒的存在并分析葡萄酒的意义，揭示了通过该产品的棱镜和丰富的语义领域来解码和解释作者作品的新方法。