- New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Romance literature, Depressed persons
"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.
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Classical in form, prestige, bleak and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Michel Houellebecq
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, William Heinemann, FLAMMARION
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780374721688
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Michel Thomas, dit Michel Houellebecq est un écrivain, poète, essayiste et acteur français né le 26 février 1956 à Saint-Pierre (La Réunion). Il est révélé par les romans *Extension du domaine de la lutte* (1994) et surtout *Les Particules élémentaires* (1998), qui le fait connaître d'un large public. Ce dernier roman et son livre suivant *Plateforme* (2001) sont considérés comme précurseurs dans la littérature française, notamment pour leur description de la misère affective et sexuelle de l'homme occidental dans les années 1990 et 2000. Avec *La Carte et le Territoire,* Michel Houellebecq reçoit le prix Goncourt en 2010, après avoir été plusieurs fois pressenti pour ce prix. Son œuvre est
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