Elementary particles
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Elementary particles
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Michel Houellebecq's ascent to international fame began a quarter of a century ago with the publication of his novel Elementary Particles. Then followed the planetary bestsellers "Platform", "The Possibility of the Island", "Subjugation", "Serotonin", "Destroy", the Prix Goncourt and the Legion of Honor.
At the center of the acclaimed novel is the fate of two brothers. Both, each in his own mind, persistently seeking happiness in the world around them, knowingly for happiness is not created. One of them, a scientist-biologist, makes an assumption about the possibility of radical changes in human genes, which should result in a new kind of "happy" people. To these thinking beings, not subject to human weaknesses and delusions, Houellebecq left it to them to judge the lives of our contemporaries and managed to do what few people have managed to do: he really shocked the public. The novel was nominated for the Goncourt Prize, but did not win it, but received a kind of "anti-Goncourt" - the November Prize - and was recognized by the authoritative magazine Lire as the Best Book of the Year. Published in a new translation by Maria Zonina.
At the center of the acclaimed novel is the fate of two brothers. Both, each in his own mind, persistently seeking happiness in the world around them, knowingly for happiness is not created. One of them, a scientist-biologist, makes an assumption about the possibility of radical changes in human genes, which should result in a new kind of "happy" people. To these thinking beings, not subject to human weaknesses and delusions, Houellebecq left it to them to judge the lives of our contemporaries and managed to do what few people have managed to do: he really shocked the public. The novel was nominated for the Goncourt Prize, but did not win it, but received a kind of "anti-Goncourt" - the November Prize - and was recognized by the authoritative magazine Lire as the Best Book of the Year. Published in a new translation by Maria Zonina.
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