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Elementary Particle

Elementary Particle

General Fiction

(france) Michel Houellebecq

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Human beings are just random arrangements of particles in the universe. Bruno and Michel are half-brothers with completely different personalities and mirrors of each other. Bruno was romantic and became a Chinese teacher; Michelle was rational and became a biologist. Bruno is a practitioner of life, seeking the meaning of life in the process of eating, drinking, having fun, and changing girlfriends; Michel rejected the love of his childhood sweetheart, preferring to devote himself to sacred scientific research than fleeting desires. At some point in their lives, they were all very close to happiness but missed it. The intertwined fates of Bruno and Michel constitute the DNA double helix structure of human existence. In the not-too-distant future, thanks to Michelle's research results, humans will achieve immortality through asexual reproduction and get rid of the seven emotions and six desires of being born...

Serotonin (houellebecq's Series)

(france) Michel Houellebecq

153K0

The 21st century version of "The Outsider"! Capturing the lonely spirit and nihilistic atmosphere of modern society, "looking for hope beyond all hope". The first person in the French literary world after Camus, with annual sales of more than 500,000 in France, twice won the Fu Lei Translation Award, and was translated by the famous French translator Mr. Jin Longge. It is a novel about urban depression, a novel about self-salvation and finding happiness. Depression, the plague of modern society. I am 46 years old, a senior agricultural consultant, committed to supporting French agriculture, with a high salary and a Japanese girlfriend that everyone envies. I had no reason to be depressed, but I knew that life was falling apart. My girlfriend doesn't love me, so my job is meaningless. For more than 40 years, I have tried hard to abide by the middle-class principles step by step, but I found that everything has become ridiculous. In fact, happiness was once close at hand, but I still hopelessly ruined it. So, I played disappearing and started the journey of searching for myself. This is a story about individuals fighting against depression, individuals fighting against social disintegration, fighting sadness with sadness, and mocking depravity with depravity.