The French rentree in September beckons not only children back to the classroom but also book-lovers to the bookshops. This month, 633 titles will be published in French, in a ritual known as la rentree litteraire, a publishing blitz that the reading public finds increasingly bewildering. This year's list is double the length of that six years ago, and many titles end up unsold in the stockroom. Some hard questions are now being raised. How many of these novels are really worth reading? And why are so few of these authors known outside France? Even francophiles in the English-speaking world find it hard to list many contemporary French novelists. First on most lists would be Michel Houellebecq, who made his name with the nihilist "Les Particules Elementaires" ("Atomised") in 1998, and re-ignited controversy with "Plateforme" in 2001. Sure enough, his latest novel, "La Possibilite d'une Ile", just published in French and due out in Britain in November and America next April, is the season's sensation, prompting a fresh outburst of moral indignation.
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机译：九月份的法国房客不仅招揽孩子们回到教室，而且还向书店里的书迷们招手。本月，将有633种法文出版物以法文出版，即一种名为la rentree litteraire的仪式，这是一种出版闪电战，阅读公众对此感到越来越困惑。今年的名单是六年前的两倍，许多股票最终都没有在库存中出售。现在提出了一些难题。这些小说中有多少真的值得一读？为什么在法国以外很少见到这些作家？即使是说英语的世界上的亲法主义者，也很难列出许多当代法国小说家。在大多数榜单上排名第一的是Michel Houellebecq，他于1998年以虚荣主义者“ Les Particules Elementaires”（“ Atomized”）出名，并在2001年以“ Plateforme”再次引起争议。果然，他的最新小说《 La 《 Possibilite d'une Ile》刚刚在法国发行，将于11月在英国发行，明年4月在美国发行，引起了整个季节的轰动，引发了新的道德愤慨爆发。
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