The Elementary Particles - Rilegato

Houellebecq, Michel; Wynne, Frank

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0375407707 ISBN 13: 9780375407703

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000

Riassunto

The central characters, Bruno and Michel, were born to a bohemian mother (but they had different fathers, of course) at the height of the sixties. Following her inevitable divorce, they endured separate childhoods and developed distinct identities. Bruno - a failure to his own family and literary calling - is pursued by sexual obsession and madness. Michel - a wholly asexual molecular biologist - expresses his disgust with society by engineering one that frees mankind at last from its uncontrollable, destructive urges.

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Informazioni sull?autore

A poet and novelist, Michel Houellebecq is the author of one previous novel, <i>Whatever</i> (<i>Extension du domaine de la lutte</i>). His awards include the Grand prix national des lettres and, for <b>The Elementary Particles</b>, the Prix novembre. He lives in Ireland.

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emarkable best-seller," wrote <i>The Economist</i>, "is France's biggest literary sensation since Françoise Sagan, people are saying, or since Albert Camus even . . . The passing to a new generation of the literary flame--albeit, in this instance, a blowtorch." In a firestorm of controversy, <i>l'affaire Houellebecq</i> has spread throughout Europe and beyond, with translations of the book undertaken in nearly thirty countries around the world.<br><br>The central characters, Bruno and Michel, were born to a bohemian mother (but they had different fathers, of course) at the height of the sixties. Following her inevitable divorce, they endured separate childhoods and developed distinct identities. Bruno--a failure to his own family and literary calling--is pursued by sexual obsession and madness. Michel--a wholly asexual molecular biologist--expresses his disgust with society by engineering one that frees mankind at last from its uncontrollable, destructive urges.&l

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0375407707
• ISBN 13: 9780375407703
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 263
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile