Serotonin

Name: Serotonin
Rating: 3.7 (3 reviews)
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9781785152245

by Unknown Author

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256 pages2019Penguin Random HouseISBN 9781785152245

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THE MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH BOOK OF THE YEAR ___________________ 'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York Times Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste feels he is dying of sadness. His young girlfriend hates him and his career as an engineer at the Ministry of Agriculture is pretty much over. His only relief comes in the form of a pill - white, oval, small. Recently released for public consumption, Captorix is a new brand of anti-depressant which works by altering the brain's release of serotonin. Armed with this new drug, Labrouste decides to abandon his life in Paris and return to the Normandy countryside where he used to work promoting regional cheeses, and where he had once been in love. But instead of happiness, he finds a rural community devastated by globalisation and European agricultural policies, and local farmers longing, like Labrouste himself, for an impossible return to what they remember as the golden age. Written by one of the most provocative and prophetic novelists of his generation, Serotonin is at once a devastating story of solitude, longing and individual suffering, and a powerful criticism of modern life.

Publication Details

Publisher: Penguin Random House
Published: 2019
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781785152245

About Unknown Author

Michel Thomas, dit Michel Houellebecq est un écrivain, poète, essayiste et acteur français né le 26 février 1956 à Saint-Pierre (La Réunion). Il est révélé par les romans *Extension du domaine de la lutte* (1994) et surtout *Les Particules élémentaires* (1998), qui le fait connaître d'un large public. Ce dernier roman et son livre suivant *Plateforme* (2001) sont considérés comme précurseurs dans la littérature française, notamment pour leur description de la misère affective et sexuelle de l'homme occidental dans les années 1990 et 2000. Avec *La Carte et le Territoire,* Michel Houellebecq reçoit le prix Goncourt en 2010, après avoir été plusieurs fois pressenti pour ce prix. Son œuvre est traduite en plus de 40 langues. ---------- Michel Thomas, known as Michel Houellebecq, is a French writer, poet, essayist, and actor born on February 26, 1956, in Saint-Pierre, Réunion. He rose to prominence with the novels *Whatever* *(Extension du domaine de la lutte,* 1994) and especially *The Elementary Particles* *(Les Particules élémentaires,* 1998), which brought him to the attention of a wide audience. The latter novel and his subsequent book, *Platform* (2001), are considered groundbreaking in French literature, particularly for their depiction of the emotional and sexual deprivation of Western man in the 1990s and 2000s. With *The Map and the Territory* *(La Carte et le Territoire),* Michel Houellebecq received the Prix Goncourt in 2010, after having been a contender several times. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages.