WhateverJust thirty, with a well paid job, no love life, and a terrible attitude, the anti hero of this grim, funny novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until he's packed off with a colleague the sexually frustrated Raphael Tisserand to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system. Whatever, Michel Houellebecq's first novel,