by Michel Houellebecq · RL Libri · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788846208248
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«Le particelle elementari» is the novel by Michel Houellebecq, published by RL Libri in paperback (316 pages, in Italian).
The novel follows two stepbrothers: Michel, a molecular biologist who sees cloning as a way out of human imperfection, and Bruno, a teacher tormented by a sexual obsession that causes him psychiatric crises. Through their parallel lives, Houellebecq portrays loneliness, existential emptiness, and the decline of Western civilization.
This Italian edition belongs to the Superpocket collection and was published on 11 November 2005.
A novel aimed at readers of contemporary fiction interested in social and existential portraiture.
Michel Houellebecq is a French author of novels, poems, and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker, and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Houellebecq published his first novel Whatever in 1994 and his second, Atomised, in 1998, to international fame as well as controversy. He has published several books of poetry, including The Art of Struggle in 1996.
