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Serotonin: A Novel
Serotonin: A Novel
Serotonin: A Novel
Libro electrónico295 páginas5 horas

Serotonin: A Novel

Por Michel Houellebecq

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Michel Houellebecq’s Serotonin is a caustic, frightening, hilarious, raunchy, offensive, and politically incorrect novel about the decline of Europe, Western civilization, and humanity in general.

Deeply depressed by his romantic and professional failures, the aging hedonist and agricultural engineer Florent-Claude Labrouste feels he is “dying of sadness.” He hates his young girlfriend, and the feeling is almost certainly mutual; his career is pretty much over; and he has to keep himself thoroughly medicated to cope with day-to-day life.

Suffocating in the rampant loneliness, consumerism, hedonism, and sprawl of the city, Labrouste decides to head for the hills, returning to Normandy, where he once worked promoting regional cheeses and where he was once in love, and even—it now seems—happy. There he finds a countryside devastated by globalization and by European agricultural policies, and encounters farmers longing, like Labrouste himself, for an impossible return to a simpler age.

As the farmers prepare for what might be an armed insurrection, it becomes clear that the health of one miserable body and of a suffering body politic are not so different, and that all parties may be rushing toward a catastrophe that a whole drugstore’s worth of antidepressants won’t make bearable.

IdiomaEnglish
EditorialMacmillan Publishers
Fecha de lanzamiento19 nov 2019
ISBN9780374721688
Serotonin: A Novel
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Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq (1958) es poeta, ensayista y novelista, «la primera star literaria desde Sartre», según se escribió en Le Nouvel Observateur. Su primera novela, Ampliación del campo de batalla (1994), ganó el Premio Flore y fue muy bien recibida por la crítica española. En mayo de 1998 recibió el Premio Nacional de las Letras, otorgado por el Ministerio de Cultura francés. Su segunda novela, Las partículas elementales (Premio Novembre, Premio de los lectores de Les Inrockuptibles y mejor libro del año según la revista Lire), fue muy celebrada y polémica, igual que Plataforma. Houellebecq obtuvo el Premio Goncourt con El mapa y el territorio, que se tradujo en treinta y seis países, abordó el espinoso tema de la islamización de la sociedad europea en Sumisión y volvió a levantar ampollas con Serotonina. Las seis novelas han sido publicadas por Anagrama, al igual que H. P. Lovecraft, Lanzarote, El mundo como supermercado, Enemigos públicos, Intervenciones, En presencia de Schopenhauer y los libros de poemas Sobrevivir, El sentido de la lucha, La búsqueda de la felicidad, Renacimiento (reunidos en el tomo Poesía) y Configuración de la última orilla. Houellebecq ha sido galardonado también con el prestigioso Premio IMPAC (2002), el Schopenhauer (2004) y, en España, el Leteo (2005).

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