Son of a...

There's nothing more dangerous than a mother scorned.  Ask Michel Houellebecq:

But not even his fiercest detractor to date has threatened to knock his teeth   out with a walking stick. That is exactly what his mother, Lucie Ceccaldi   says she will do if he ever mentions her again in his work.

In a book of her own out next week, Mrs Ceccaldi lambasts the cult author as a   dishonest petit con (little git), an untalented social climber with   an unjustifiably vast ego.

“This individual, who alas! came out of my tummy, is a liar, an impostor, a   parasite and especially, especially, a little upstart ready to do anything   for fortune and fame,” she writes in L’Innocente, an autobiography.

“What are these novels where nothing ever happens?” she says.

She penned her novel from a beach hut on La Reunion island, where she lives,   as revenge for being in turn scorned and vilified by her son in his works.

Atomised, for example, includes an ageing, wayward hippy who gave up her   children to live a life of free sex in a sect-like community on the French   Riviera.