by Michel Houellebecq · J'ai lu · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782290028599
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«Les particules élémentaires» is the novel by Michel Houellebecq published by J'ai lu in paperback (320 pages, in French).
Two stepbrothers, Michel and Bruno, face the same void in opposite ways: the biologist Michel takes refuge in science, unable to love, while Bruno relentlessly pursues sexual pleasure. The novel paints a disillusioned portrait of contemporary society, marked by loneliness, alienation and the erosion of emotional bonds.
The work was originally published in 1998 and won the Dublin Literary Award in 2002. This paperback edition, published in 2010, contains the complete text in French.
Readers of literary fiction and contemporary French narrative interested in a critical and disillusioned view of the modern individual.
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.
