Fundamental particles

Author: [French] Michel Houellebecq
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Publish Date: 2000-08-01
Features: This book is one of the "Western Bestseller Translation Series." It swept the French literary scene in 1998 and was even hailed by the magazine "Elle" as a great novel of the late 20th century. In terms of artistic form, it has unique innovations, depicting the different experiences of Bruno and Michel, a pair of half-brothers, through a cross-narrative approach (the former being a sex liberationist, the latter a sexually indifferent scientist). It portrays the rise and decline of American-style civilization in France. The book contains numerous scenes of sexual content, but as French magazine "L'Express" stated, "Today, it is no longer easy to create a sensation with sex."