[3] The Grand Mosque of Paris's rector Chems-Eddine Hafiz filed a complaint to the police where he accused Houellebecq of breaking the country's law against incitement to racial hatred.

Houellebecq says the affair made his life a hell and describes the experience as if he was treated "like the subject of a wildlife documentary".

[3] Raphaëlle Leyris of Le Monde called the book tedious and said that Houellebecq "demonstrates a remarkably finicky conception of consent".

[2] Esther Serrajordia of La Croix was disappointed that the book does not address another controversy from the same period, when the French-Senegalese author El Hadji Diagola accused Houellebecq of having plagiarised his works in the novel Submission (2015).

[3] L'Express calls Quelques mois dans ma vie a "vibrant and frank story".