Vintage Classics: Atomised

Vintage Classics: Atomised
Michel Houellebecq
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Paperback
h199 x 131mm - 384pg
1 Mar 2001 UK
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9780099283362
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Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than in practice, his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated. Both are symptomatic members of our atomised society, where religion has given way to shallow 'new age' philosophies and love to meaningless sexual connections. Atomised (Les Particules elementaires) tells the stories of the two brothers, but the real subject of the novel is in its dismantling of contemporary society and its assumptions, in its political incorrectness, and its caustic and penetrating asides on everything from anthropology to the problem pages of girls' magazines. A dissection of modern lives and loves. By turns funny, acid, infuriating, didactic, touching and visceral.
"Very moving, gloriously, extravagantly filthy and very funny" Independent "Compelling...wrenchingly terrible... Unhealthy and haunting, rich and provocative, Atomised astonishes both as a novel of ideas and as a portrait of a society" Independent "A brave and rather magnificent book" Daily Telegraph "Sheer brilliance...totally mesmerising, energising, infuriating and moving... Compulsory reading" Time Out "A novel which hunts big game while others settle for shooting rabbits" -- Julian Barnes Times Literary Supplement
A poet, essayist and novelist, Michel Houellebecq is the author of several novels including The Map and the Territory, Atomised, Platform and Whatever.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780099283362
Published: 1 Mar 2001
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 199mm
Width: 131mm
Pages: 384
Dewey: 843.914

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