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[...]dramatic increases in housing costs have enabled, and in turn been enabled by, massive interventions by private equity into the housing market, which have drastically furthered inequality, ballooned household debt, and caused exponential growth in homeless populations, with countries like Canada and New Zealand leading the way in terms of extremity, but with the United States, France, Australia, and Ireland trailing not far behind. France, in particular, has seen a shift away from social housing, and subsidised construction, a strategy of \"national embedding of so-called 'free-market players'\" who aim to maximize profits as part of a broader \"'financialization' of everyday life\" (Pollard, 2009, 173, 171). [...]these recent novels, produced by authors of very different political orientations, Michel Houellebecq and Francois Roux, offer insight into the cultural understanding and representation of an economic reality that appears to be \"everywhere\" (Peck & Tickell, 2002, 380) and \"nowhere\" (Venugopal, 2015, 165). Through the articulations of characters, as well as the economic situations in which the authors place them, inductive analysis can contribute to an understanding of these effects, both broad and deep.

Structured around pivotal elections in France and the United States, recent novels by François Roux and Michel Houellebecq weave together fictional characters with their historical referents, tracing a history of neoliberal economics and its effects on political processes and personal lives. By directly staging the history of Neoliberalism, both Roux and Houellebecq are able to invoke an experience of sudden awareness in their characters—the dedicated businessman Tanguy can, for example, come to view automation as a “genocide of workers” at a climactic moment. By coupling narrative with historical fact, both authors accomplish the difficult task of producing shock at developments so widespread that they have come to be considered inevitable and immune to the influence of democratic politics.

\"I would ask the chambers to release me,\" said the defendant, Kaing Guek Eav, 67, known as [Duch], as he addressed the panel officially known as the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. \"Thank you very much.\" On the following day, Duch's French lawyer, Francois Roux, explicitly disavowed that assertion. He emphasized Duch's cooperation, including sometimes pedantic descriptions of his techniques of prison management and torture. But Mr. Roux sought to minimize his client's significance, saying the Tuol Sleng deaths amounted to only 1 percent of the overall toll. \"As long as the prosecution's submissions make this man a scapegoat, you will not advance the development of humankind one millimeter,\" Mr. Roux said in his closing statement. \"No, Duch does not have to bear the whole horror of the tragedy of Cambodia on his head.\"

It was a prison where [Duch]'s word was final and where an order like \"kill them all\" was a death sentence or \"interrogate four persons, kill the rest\" was one day's assignment for his staff. \"We are defending a man, and although this man has acknowledged responsibility, he is entitled to a fair trial,\" [Francois Roux] said. \"The work we are doing is hard work but essential, and we can only do our work if we respect the rule of law, respect the rights of the accused and respect the principle of an adversarial proceeding.\" \"I repeat that we respect the victims,\" Roux said. \"We also owe respect to the accused, and we also must respect the rule of law.\"

It was a prison where [Duch]'s word was final and where an order like \"kill them all\" was a death sentence or \"interrogate four persons, kill the rest\" was one day's assignment for his staff. \"I repeat that we respect the victims,\" [Francois Roux] said. \"We also owe respect to the accused, and we also must respect the rule of law.\" \"I could not sleep last night,\" said one of the survivors, Vann Nath, 62. \"I was waiting for the sunrise so that I could see Duch in the dock.\"