Observer review of Houellebecq's HP Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life + Extract
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- This is an observer review entry combining analysis of Houellebecq's work on Lovecraft with extracts from Lovecraft.
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- This line is a metadata header for a review of Lovecraft commentary.
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- Some lines serve as metadata or headers rather than prose.
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